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And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through
thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
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Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country, and shall set thee in one
of the cities of the passages:
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And thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them.
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And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall be taken, let not thy countenance fall:
I have spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vain.
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Then Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his tent, to take Achior, and bring
him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
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So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they went from
the midst of the plain into the hill country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.
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And when the men of the city saw them, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city
to the top of the hill: and every man that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones
against them.
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Nevertheless having gotten privily under the hill, they bound Achior, and cast him down, and
left him at the foot of the hill, and returned to their lord.
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But the Israelites descended from their city, and came unto him, and loosed him, and brought
him to Bethulia, and presented him to the governors of the city:
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Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the
son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.
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And they called together all the ancients of the city, and all their youth ran together, and their
women, to the assembly, and they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him
of that which was done.
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And he answered and declared unto them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the
words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of Assur, and whatsoever Holofernes had
spoken proudly against the house of Israel.
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Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried unto God. saying,
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O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look
upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.
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Then they comforted Achior, and praised him greatly.
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And Ozias took him out of the assembly unto his house, and made a feast to the elders; and
they called on the God of Israel all that night for help.
CHAPTER 7
The next day Holofernes commanded all his army, and all his people which were come to take his
part, that they should remove their camp against Bethulia, to take aforehand the ascents of the hill
country, and to make war against the children of Israel.
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