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:
4:4. And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together corn for provision for war.
4:5. And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way, that they should take possession of the ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to Jerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the mountains.