Judith:6

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* And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased , Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations , * And who art thou , Achior , and the hirelings of Ephraim , that thou hast prophesied against us as to day , and hast said , that we should not make war with the people of Israel , because their God will defend them ? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor ? * He will send his power , and will destroy them from the face of the earth , and their God shall not deliver them : but we his servants will destroy them as one man ; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses . * For with them we will tread them under foot , and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood , and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies , and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us , for they shall utterly perish , saith king Nabuchodonosor , lord of all the earth : for he said , None of my words shall be in vain . * And thou , Achior , an hireling of Ammon , which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity , shalt see my face no more from this day , until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt . * And then shall the sword of mine army , and the multitude of them that serve me , pass through thy sides , and thou shalt fall among their slain , when I return . * Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country , and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages : * And thou shalt not perish , till thou be destroyed with them . * And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall be taken , let not thy countenance fall : I have spoken it , and none of my words shall be in vain . * Then Holofernes commanded his servants , that waited in his tent , to take Achior , and bring him to Bethulia , and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel . * So his servants took him , and brought him out of the camp into the plain , and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill country , and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia . * And when the men of the city saw them , they took up their weapons , and went out of the city to the top of the hill : and every man that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against them . * Nevertheless having gotten privily under the hill , they bound Achior , and cast him down , and left him at the foot of the hill , and returned to their lord . * But the Israelites descended from their city , and came unto him , and loosed him , and brought him to Bethulia , and presented him to the governors of the city : * Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha , of the tribe of Simeon , and Chabris the son of Gothoniel , and Charmis the son of Melchiel . * And they called together all the ancients of the city , and all their youth ran together , and their women , to the assembly , and they set Achior in the midst of all their people . Then Ozias asked him of that which was done . * And he answered and declared unto them the words of the council of Holofernes , and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of Assur , and whatsoever Holofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel . * Then the people fell down and worshipped God , and cried unto God . saying , * O Lord God of heaven , behold their pride , and pity the low estate of our nation , and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day . * Then they comforted Achior , and praised him greatly . * And Ozias took him out of the assembly unto his house , and made a feast to the elders ; and they called on the God of Israel all that night for help .

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