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Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors and captains, and the officers of the army of Assur;
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And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
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And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.
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And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision:
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And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the king's house.
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Then he went forth and all his power to go before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen.
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A great number also sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.
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And they went forth of Nineve three days' journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
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Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen and chariots, and went from thence into the hill country;
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And destroyed Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Israel, which were toward the wilderness at the south of the land of the Chellians.
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Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, till ye come to the sea.