22
From there Holofernes took his whole army, the infantry, cavalry, and chariots, and went up into the hill country.
23
He ravaged Put and Lud, and plundered all the Rassisites and the Ishmaelites on the border of the desert, south of the country of the Chelleans.
24
Then he followed the Euphrates and passed through Mesopotamia and destroyed all the fortified towns along the brook Abron, as far as the sea.
25
He also seized the territory of Cilicia, and killed everyone who resisted him. Then he came to the southern borders of Japheth, facing Arabia.
26
He surrounded all the Midianites, and burned their tents and plundered their sheepfolds.
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