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They called together all the elders of the city, and all their young men and women ran to the assembly. They set Achior in the middle of all their people, and Uzziah questioned him about what had happened.
14
When the Israelites came down from their city, they found Achior. They untied him and led him into Bethulia, and presented him to the rulers of their city.
15
In those days the rulers were Uzziah, Micah's son, from the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris, Gothoniel's son, and Charmis, Melchiel's son.
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They called together all the elders of the city, and all their young men and women ran to the assembly. They set Achior in the middle of all their people, and Uzziah questioned him about what had happened.
17
He answered and told them what was said in Holofernes' council—both what he had said among the Assyrian commanders and what Holofernes had boasted he would do to the house of Israel.
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Then the people fell down and worshipped God. They cried out: