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chapter 2
1
In the
thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of
the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of
the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.
2 And he called all the ancients, and all the
governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his
counsel:
3 And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the
earth under his empire.
4 And when this saying pleased them all,
Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,
5 And said to him: Go out against all the kingdoms of
the west, and against them especially that despised my commandment.
6 Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom, and all the
strong cities thou shalt bring under my yoke.
7 Then Holofernes called the captains and officers of
the power of the Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, as the king
commanded him, a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men on foot, and twelve
thousand archers, horsemen.
8 And he made all his warlike preparations to go before
with a multitude of innumerable camels, with all provisions sufficient for the
armies in abundance, and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, without number.
9 He appointed corn to be prepared out of all Syria in
his passage.
10 But gold and silver he took out of the king's house
in great abundance.
11 And he went forth he and all the army, with the
chariots, and horsemen, and archers, who covered the face of the earth, like
locusts.
12 And when he had passed through the borders of the
Assyrians, he came to the great mountains of Ange, which are on the left of
Cilicia: and he went up to all their castles, and took all the strong places.
13 And he took by assault the renowned city of
Melothus, and pillaged all the children of Tharsis, and the children of
Ismahel, who were over against the face of the desert, and on the south of the
land of Cellon.
14 And he passed over the Euphrates and came into
Mesopotamia: and he forced all the stately cities that were there, from the
torrent of Mambre, till one comes to the sea:
15 And he took the borders thereof from Cilicia to the
coasts of Japheth, which are towards the south.
16 And he carried away all the children of Madian, and
stripped them of all their riches, and all that resisted him he slew with the
edge of the sword.
17 And after these things he went down into the plains
of Damascus in the days of the harvest, and he set all the corn on fire, and he
caused all the trees and vineyards to be cut down
18 And the fear of them fell upon alit the inhabitants
of the land.
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