Judith 3:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ Despite this, he demolished all their sanctuaries and cut down their sacred groves, thereby carrying out his commission to destroy all the gods of the land so that all the nations would worship Nebuchadnezzar alone and that only he would be invoked as a god by people of every tongue and tribe. ⁹ Finally, Holofernes advanced toward Esdraelon, in the neighborhood of Dothan, facing the great ridge of Judea. ¹⁰ He encamped between Geba^[a] and Scythopolis and remained there for an entire month as he replenished the necessary supplies for his forces.