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CHAP. V.
5 Achior telleth Holofernes what the Iewes are,
8 and what their God had done for them:
21 and aduiseth not to meddle with them.
22 All that heard him, were offended at him.
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1
Then was it declared to Holofernes
the chief captaine
of the armie of Assur that
the children of Israel had
prepared for warre, and
had shut vp the passages of the hill
countrey, and had fortified note all the tops
of the high hilles, and had laide impediments
in the champion countreys.
2
Wherewith he was very angry,
and called all the princes of Moab, and
the captaines of Ammon, and all the gouernours
of the Sea coast.
3
And he said vnto them, Tell mee
now, ye sonnes of Canaan, who this
people is that dwelleth in the hill countrey?
and what are the cities that they
inhabite? and what is the multitude of
their armie? and wherein is their power
and strength, and what king is set ouer
them, or captaine of their armie?
4
And why haue they determined
not to come and meet me, more then all
the inhabitants of the West?
5
noteThen said Achior, the captaine
of all the sonnes of Ammon: Let my
lord now heare a word from the mouth
of thy seruant, and I will declare vnto
thee the trueth, concerning this people
which dwelleth neere thee, and inhabiteth
the hill countreys: and there shall
no lie come out of the mouth of thy seruant.
6
This people are descended of the
Caldeans,
7
noteAnd they soiourned heretofore in
Mesopotamia, because they would not
follow the gods of their fathers, which
were in the land of Caldea.
8
For they note left the way of their ancestours,
and worshipped the God of
heauen, the God whom they knew: so
they cast them out from the face of their
gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia,
and soiourned there many dayes.
9
Then note their God commaunded
them to depart from the place where
they soiourned, and to goe into the land
of Chanaan, where they dwelt, and
were increased with gold and siluer, and
with very much cattell.
10
But when a famine couered all the
land of Chanaan, they went downe into
Egypt, and soiourned there, while
they were nourished, and became there
a great multitude, so that one could not
number their nation.
11
Therefore the king of Egypt rose
vp against them, and dealt subtilly with
them, and brought them low, with labouring
in bricke, ∧ made them slaues. note
12
Then they cried vnto their God,
and he smote all the land of Egypt with
incurable plagues, so the note Egyptians
cast them out of their sight.
13
And note God dried the red Sea before
them:
14
And note brought them to mount
note Sina, and Cades Barne, and cast forth
all that dwelt in the wildernesse.
15
So they dwelt in the land of the
Amorites, and they destroyed by their
strength all them of Esebon, and passing
ouer Iordan they possessed all the
hill countrey.
16
noteAnd they cast forth before them,
the Chanaanite, the Pheresite, the Iebusite,
and the Sychemite, and all the
Gergesites, and they dwelt in that countrey
many dayes.
17
And whilest they sinned not before
their God, they prospered, because the
God that hateth iniquitie, was with
them.
18
But note when they departed from
the way which he appointed them, they
were destroyed in many battels very
sore, note and were led captiues into a land
that was not theirs, and the Temple
of their God was cast to the ground,
and their cities were taken by the enemies.
19
But note nowe are they returned
to their God, and are come vp from
the places, where they were scattered,
and haue possessed Ierusalem, where
their Sanctuary is, and note are seated in
the hill countrey, for it was desolate.
20
Now therefore, my lord and gouernour,
if there be any errour in this
people, ∧ they sinne against their God,
let vs consider that this shal be their ruine,
and let vs goe vp, and we shal ouercome
them.
21
But if there be no iniquitie in their
nation, let my lord now passe by, lest
their Lord defend them, and their God
be for them, and wee become a reproch
before all the world.
22
And when Achior had finished
these sayings, all the people standing
round about the tent, murmured, and
the chiefe men of Holofernes, and all
that dwelt by the Sea side, and in Moab,
spake that he should kill him.
23
For, say they, we will not be afraid
of the face of the children of Israel, for
loe, it is a people that haue no strength,
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nor power note for a strong battell.
24
Now therefore, Lord Holofernes,
we will goe vp, and they shall be a
pray, to be deuoured of all thine armie.
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King James Bible, 1611 [1611], THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Testament, AND THE NEW: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall C&obar;mandement Appointed to be read in Churches (Imprinted... by Robert Barker [etc.], London) [word count] [B10000].
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