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and thou shalt not perish till thou be destroyed with them.
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And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall not be taken, let not thy countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vain."
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Then Holofernes commanded his servants who waited in his tent to take Achior and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
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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.
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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 who used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against them.
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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.
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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,
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who were in those days Uzziah the son of Micah, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
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And they called together all the elders 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 Uzziah asked him of that which was done.
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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 Assyria, and whatsoever Holofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel.
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Then the people fell down and worshiped God, and cried unto God, saying,