Judith 2:5-15

5 "Thus says the Great King, the lord of the whole earth: Leave my presence and take with you men confident in their strength, one hundred twenty thousand foot soldiers and twelve thousand cavalry.
6 March out against all the land to the west, because they disobeyed my orders.
7 Tell them to prepare earth and water, for I am coming against them in my anger, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my troops, to whom I will hand them over to be plundered.
8 Their wounded shall fill their ravines and gullies, and the swelling river shall be filled with their dead.
9 I will lead them away captive to the ends of the whole earth.
10 You shall go and seize all their territory for me in advance. They must yield themselves to you, and you shall hold them for me until the day of their punishment.
11 But to those who resist show no mercy, but hand them over to slaughter and plunder throughout your whole region.
12 For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, what I have spoken I will accomplish by my own hand.
13 And you—take care not to transgress any of your lord's commands, but carry them out exactly as I have ordered you; do it without delay."
14 So Holofernes left the presence of his lord, and summoned all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army.
15 He mustered the picked troops by divisions as his lord had ordered him to do, one hundred twenty thousand of them, together with twelve thousand archers on horseback,
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