Jdt 3:1 

So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying, 

Jdt 3:2 

Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie 

before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight. 

Jdt 3:3 

Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of 

wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents 

lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee. 

Jdt 3:4 

Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy 

servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee. 

Jdt 3:5 

So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after 

this manner. 

Jdt 3:6 

Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army, 

and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them 

chosen men for aid. 

Jdt 3:7 

So they and all the country round about received them with 

garlands, with dances, and with timbrels. 

Jdt 3:8 

Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their 

groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, 

that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that 

all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god. 

Jdt 3:9 

Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over 

against the great strait of Judea. 

Jdt 3:10 

And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he 

tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the 

carriages of his army.