Judith 1:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Nebuchadnezzar Issues an Ultimatum

⁷ Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, sent messengers to all who lived in Persia and to all who lived in the west, those who lived in Cilicia and Damascus, Lebanon and Antilebanon, and all who lived along the sea coast, ⁸ and those among the nations of Carmel and Gilead, and Upper Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon, ⁹ and all who were in Samaria and its towns, and beyond the Jordan as far as Jerusalem and Bethany and Chelous and Kadesh and the river of Egypt, and Tahpanhes and Raamses and the whole land of Goshen,