Judith 2:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ When he had completed his plan, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, summoned Holofernes,^[a] the highest-ranking general in his army, and second only to him in power, and he said to him, ⁵ “Thus says the great king, the lord of all the earth: ‘Go forth from my presence and take with you men of unquestioned valor, one hundred and twenty thousand infantrymen and twelve thousand cavalry. ⁶ March against all the peoples of the west because they refused to comply with my command.