22
From there Holofernes took his whole army, his infantry, cavalry, and chariots, and went up into the hill country
23
and ravaged Put and Lud, and plundered all the people of Rassis and the Ishmaelites who lived along the desert, south of the country of the Chelleans.
24
Then he followed the Euphrates and passed through Mesopotamia and destroyed all the hilltop cities along the brook Abron, as far as the sea.
25
He also seized the territory of Cilicia, and killed every one who resisted him, and came to the southern borders of Japheth, fronting toward Arabia.
26
He surrounded all the Midianites, and burned their tents and plundered their sheepfolds.
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