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And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and
the great plain of Esdrelom,
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And to all that were in Samaria and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and
Betane, and Chelus, and Kades, and the river of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land
of Gesem,
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Until ye come beyond Tanis and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, until ye come
to the borders of Ethiopia.
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But all the inhabitants of the land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor king
of the Assyrians, neither went they with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him: yea, he
was before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and
with disgrace.
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Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry with all this country, and sware by his throne and
kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and
Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children
of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.
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Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth
year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen,
and all his chariots,
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And became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and took the towers, and spoiled the
streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.
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He took also Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, and smote him through with his darts, and
destroyed him utterly that day.
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So he returned afterward to Nineve, both he and all his company of sundry nations being a
very great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his
army, an hundred and twenty days.
CHAPTER 2
And in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the first month, there was talk in the house
of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth.
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So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his
secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.
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Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that did not obey the commandment of his mouth.
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And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians called Holofernes
the chief captain of his army, which was next unto him, and said unto him.
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Thus saith the great king, the lord of the whole earth, Behold, thou shalt go forth from my
presence, and take with thee men that trust in their own strength, of footmen an hundred and twenty
thousand; and the number of horses with their riders twelve thousand.
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