Judith 6:3-13

3 He will send his forces and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God will not deliver them -- we the king's servants will destroy them as one man. They cannot resist the might of our cavalry.
4 We will burn them up, and their mountains will be drunk with their blood, and their fields will be full of their dead. They cannot withstand us, but will utterly perish. So says King Nebuchadnezzar, the lord of the whole earth. For he has spoken; none of his words shall be in vain.
5 "But you, Achior, you Ammonite hireling, who have said these words on the day of your iniquity, you shall not see my face again from this day until I take revenge on this race that came out of Egypt.
6 Then the sword of my army and the spear of my servants shall pierce your sides, and you shall fall among their wounded, when I return.
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.
12 When the men of the city saw them, they caught up their weapons and ran out of the city to the top of the hill, and all the slingers kept them from coming up by casting stones at them.
13 However, they got under the shelter of the hill and they bound Achior and left him lying at the foot of the hill, and returned to their master.
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