3
Behold, our buildings, and all our land, and all our wheat fields, and our flocks and herds, and all our sheepfolds with their tents, lie before you; do with them whatever you please.
4
Our cities also and their inhabitants are your slaves; come and deal with them in any way that seems good to you."
5
The men came to Holofernes and told him all this.
6
Then he went down to the seacoast with his army and stationed garrisons in the hilltop cities and took picked men from them as his allies.
7
And these people and all in the country round about welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.