Judith 3 — RVA
3Verse 1And they sent unto him messengers with words of peace, saying,Verse 2Behold, we the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the great king lie before thee: use us as it is pleasing in thy sight.Verse 3Behold, our dwellings, and all our country, and all our fields of wheat, and our flocks and herds, and all the sheepcotes of our tents, lie before thy face: use them as it may please thee.Verse 4Behold, even our cities and they that dwell in them are thy servants: come and deal with them as it is good in thine eyes.Verse 5And the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him according to these words.Verse 6And he came down toward the sea coast, he and his host, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for allies.Verse 7And they received him, they and all the country round about them, with garlands and dances and timbrels.Verse 8And he cast down all their borders, and cut down their groves: and it had been given unto him to destroy all the gods of the land, that all the nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all their tongues and their tribes should call upon him as god.Verse 9And he came towards Esdraelon nigh unto Dotaea, which is over against the great ridge of Judaea.Verse 10And he encamped between Geba and Scythopolis, and he was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his host.