7
Now my slaves are going to take you back into the hill country and put you in one of the cities beside the passes,
8
and you will not die until you perish along with them.
9
If you really hope in your heart that they will not be taken, do not look downcast! I have spoken and none of my words shall fail."
10
Then Holofernes ordered his slaves, who waited on him in his tent, to seize Achior and take him to Bethulia and hand him over to the men of Israel.
11
So the slaves took him and led him out of the camp into the plain, and from the plain they went up into the hill country and came to the springs below Bethulia.
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.