7. And you shall declare to them, that they prepare earth and water; because I will go forth in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my host, and I will give them for a spoil to them:
8. and their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks, and the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:
9. and I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
10. But you shall go forth, and take beforehand for me all their coasts; and if they shall yield themselves to you, then shall you reserve them for me till the day of their reproof.
11. But as for them that are disobedient, your eye shall not spare; but you shall give them up to be slain and to be spoiled in all your land.
12. For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, I have spoken, and I will do this with my hand.
13. And you, moreover, shall not transgress anything of the commandments of your lord, but you shall surely accomplish them, as I have commanded you, and you shall not defer to do them.
14. And Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors and the captains and officers of the host of Asshur;
15. and he counted chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, to a hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
16. and he ranged them, as a great multitude is ordered for the war.
17. And he took camels and asses and mules for their baggage, an exceeding great multitude; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision;
18. and great store of victual for every man, and exceeding much gold and silver out of the king’s house.
19. And he went forth, he and all his host, on their journey, to go before king Nebuchadnezzar, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots and horsemen and chosen footmen.
20. And a great company of sundry nations went forth with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for they could not be counted by reason of their multitude.
21. And they departed out of Nineveh three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and encamped from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
22. And he took all his host, his footmen and horsemen and chariots, and went away from thence into the hill country,
23. and destroyed Put and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Ishmael, which were over against the wilderness to the south of the land of the Chellians.
24. And he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and brake down all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, until you come to the sea.