1. And when the tumult of the men that were about the council was ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the host of Asshur said to Achior and to all the children of Moab before all the people of the aliens,
2. And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said, that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?
3. He shall send forth his might, and shall destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants shall strike them as one man; and they shall not sustain the might of our horses.
4. For with them we shall burn them up, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their plains shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not stand before us, but they shall surely perish, says king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth: for he said, The words that I have spoken shall not be in vain.
5. But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, which have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, shall see my face no more from this day, until I shall be avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.
6. And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through your sides, and you shall fall among their slain, when I shall return.
7. And my servants shall bring you back into the hill country, and shall set you in one of the cities of the ascents:
8. and you shall not perish, till you be destroyed with them.
9. And if you hope in your heart that they shall not be taken, let not your countenance fall. I have spoken it, and none of my words shall fall to the ground.
10. And Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his tent, to take Achior, and bring him back to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
11. And his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they removed from the midst of the plain country into the hill country, and came to the fountains that were under Bethulia.