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for this is where all the people of Bethulia get their water. So thirst will destroy them, and they will surrender their town. Meanwhile, we and our people will go up to the tops of the nearby mountains and camp there to keep watch to see that no one gets out of the town.
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They and their wives and children will waste away with famine, and before the sword reaches them they will be strewn about in the streets where they live.
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Thus you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled and did not receive you peaceably."
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These words pleased Holofernes and all his attendants, and he gave orders to do as they had said.
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So the army of the Ammonites moved forward, together with five thousand Assyrians, and they encamped in the valley and seized the water supply and the springs of the Israelites.
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