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And thou shalt go against all the west country, because they disobeyed my commandment.
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And thou shalt declare unto that they prepare for me earth and water: for I will go forth in my
wrath against them and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of mine army, and I will
give them for a spoil unto them:
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So that their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks and the river shall be filled with their dead,
till it overflow:
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And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.
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Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they will
yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.
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But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter,
and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.
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For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I have spoken, that will I do by
mine hand.
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And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish
them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.
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Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called ail the governors and
captains, and the officers of the army of Assur;
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And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto an
hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;
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And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.
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And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen
and goats without number for their provision:
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And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the
king's house.
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Then he went forth and all his power to go before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and
to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen
footmen.
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A great number also sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the
earth: for the multitude was without number.
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And they went forth of Nineve three days' journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and pitched
from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.
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Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen and chariots, and went from thence
into the hill country;
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And destroyed Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Israel,
which were toward the wilderness at the south of the land of the Chellians.
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Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high
cities that were upon the river Arbonai, till ye come to the sea.
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