Judith 3:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ These people and all in the countryside welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines. ⁸ Yet he demolished all their shrines^[a] and cut down their sacred groves; for he had been commissioned to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone, and that all their dialects and tribes should call upon him as a god.

⁹ Then he came toward Esdraelon, near Dothan, facing the great ridge of Judea;