Judith 1:7-9

Common English Bible

Nebuchadnezzar’s ultimatum

⁷ King Nebuchadnezzar of the Assyrians sent a message to everyone who lived in Persia, to everyone who lived in the west—those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Lebanon, and Anti-Lebanon, and everyone who lived along the seashore, ⁸ and those among the nations of Carmel and Gilead, and upper Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon, ⁹ and everyone in Samaria and its cities, and beyond the Jordan as far as Jerusalem and Bethany and Chelous and Kadesh, and the river of Egypt, and Tahpanhes and Raamses, and all the land of Goshen,