²⁷ Then he went down into the plain of Damascus during the wheat harvest and burned all their fields and destroyed their flocks and herds and sacked their towns and ravaged their lands and put all their young men to the sword.^(A)

³ See, our buildings and all our land and all our wheat fields and our flocks and herds and all our encampments^[a] lie before you; do with them as you please.^(A)

Council against the Israelites

5 It was reported to Holofernes, the general of the Assyrian army, that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the mountain passes and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains.^(A)