Judith 6:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 6
Holofernes’s Answer. 1 When the uproar of the crowd surrounding the council had subsided, Holofernes, the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army, said to Achior in the presence of the whole contingent of the coastland peoples, of the Moabites, and of the Ammonite mercenaries: 2 “Who do you think you are, Achior, you and your Ephraimite mercenaries, to prophesy among us as you have done today and to attempt to convince us not to make war against the people of Israel because their God will protect them? What god is there besides Nebuchadnezzar? He will send his forces and wipe them off the face of the earth. Their God will not save them.
3 “We, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, will destroy them as easily as if they were one man. They will not be able to withstand the strength of our cavalry.
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