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Council against the Israelites

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)

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The Campaign against Bethulia

The next day Holofernes ordered his whole army and all the allies who had joined him to break camp and move against Bethulia and seize the passes up into the hill country and make war on the Israelites.(A)

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Holofernes’s Death Is Discovered

11 As soon as it was dawn, they hung the head of Holofernes on the wall. Then they all took their weapons and went out in companies to the mountain passes.(A)

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