4. But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and said every one to his neighbor, Now shall these men lick up the face of all the earth; and neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, shall be able to bear their weight.
5. And every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
6. But on the second day Holofernes led out all his horse in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,
7. and viewed the ascents to their city, and searched out the fountains of the waters, and seized upon them, and set garrisons of men of war over them, and himself departed to his people.
8. And there came to him all the rulers of the children of Esau, and all the leaders of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast, and said,