Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,
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They therefore sent messengers to him to sue for peace in these words:
2 Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
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"We, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great King, lie prostrate before you. Do with us whatever you will.
3 Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.
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See, our buildings and all our land and all our wheat fields and our flocks and herds and all our encampments lie before you; do with them as you please.
4 Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.
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Our towns and their inhabitants are also your slaves; come and deal with them as you see fit."
5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.
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The men came to Holofernes and told him all this.
6 Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid.
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Then he went down to the seacoast with his army and stationed garrisons in the fortified towns and took picked men from them as auxiliaries.
7 So they and all the country round about received them with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.
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These people and all in the countryside welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines.
8 Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.
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Yet he demolished all their shrines and cut down their sacred groves; for he had been commissioned to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone, and that all their dialects and tribes should call upon him as a god.
9 Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
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Then he came toward Esdraelon, near Dothan, facing the great ridge of Judea;
10 And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.
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he camped between Geba and Scythopolis, and remained for a whole month in order to collect all the supplies for his army.
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