3:11. And though they did these things, they could not for all that mitigate the fierceness of his heart:
3:12. For he both destroyed their cities, and cut down their groves.
3:13. For Nabuchodonosor the king had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the earth, that he only might be called God by those nations which could be brought under him by the power of Holofernes.
3:14. And when he had passed through all Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans into the land of Gabaa,
3:15. And he took possession of their cities, and stayed there for thirty days, in which days he commanded all the troops of his army to be united.
Judith Chapter 4
The children of Israel prepare themselves to resist Holofernes. They cry to the Lord for help.
4:1. Then the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Juda, hearing these things, were exceedingly afraid of him.
4:2. Dread and horror seized upon their minds, lest he should do the same to Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord, that he had done to other cities and their temples.
4:3. And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains: