New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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2 They sent envoys to sue for peace, who said: ‘We are servants of
the Great King Nebuchadnezzar, we lie prostrate before you; do
with us as you please.
3 Our buildings, our territory, our wheat fields,
our flocks and herds and every sheepfold in our encampments, all are
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yours to do with as you wish.
4 Our towns and their inhabitants are
subject to you; come and deal with them as you think fit.’
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6 When the envoys came to Holophernes with this message, he went
down to the coast with his army and garrisoned all the fortified
towns, taking from them picked men as auxiliaries.
7 Both there and
in all the surrounding country he was welcomed with garlands,
dancing, and tambourines.
8 He demolished all their sanctuaries note and
cut down their sacred groves, for he had been commissioned to
destroy all the gods of the land, so that Nebuchadnezzar alone
should be worshipped by every nation and invoked as a god by men of
every tribe and tongue.
9 Holophernes then advanced towards Esdraelon, near Dothan,
which faces the great ridge of Judaea,
10 and encamped between Geba
and Scythopolis, where he remained for a whole month to collect
supplies for his army.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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