6. And when I return, the sword of my army and the spear of my servants will pierce through your ribs, and you will fall among their wounded.
7. Now my servants will deliver you to the highlands and leave you in one of the cities near the mountain passes.
8. You won’t die until you are destroyed along with them.
9. If in your heart you really do hope that they won’t be conquered, cheer up! But I promise you, nothing I have spoken will fail to happen."
10. Then Holofernes ordered the slaves who were waiting on him in the tent to seize Achior, deliver him to Bethulia, and hand him over to the Israelites.
11. So the slaves seized him and led him out of the camp to the plain and from the plain to the highlands, and they arrived at the springs below Bethulia.
12. When the men of the city saw them, they grabbed their weapons and ran out of the city to the hilltop. They kept them off the mountain pass by throwing stones at them with their slings.
13. By finding shelter below the hill, the Assyrians tied up Achior and left him at the bottom of the hill, and then returned to their master.