When he had settled his design, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians summoned Holofernes, commander in chief of his army and second only to himself, and said to him:
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2He called together all his attendants and all his grandees, laid before them the secret of his design, and with his own mouth sealed the whole ruin of the earth. 3And they resolved to destroy all flesh that had not obeyed the word of his mouth. 4When he had settled his design, Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians summoned Holofernes, commander in chief of his army and second only to himself, and said to him: 5“Thus speaks the great king, master of the whole earth. Look: you are to leave my presence and take with you men who trust their own strength — a hundred and twenty thousand on foot, and a mass of cavalry, twelve thousand riders. 6You will march out to confront every land toward the sunset, because they defied the word of my mouth.
