Terror upon terror took hold of them before his face, and over Jerusalem and the temple of their God, the Lord, they were thrown into turmoil,
In context
1The Israelites who lived in Judea got word of everything Holofernes had done to the nations — Holofernes, commander in chief of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians — and how he had looted every one of their sanctuaries and given them over to annihilation. 2Terror upon terror took hold of them before his face, and over Jerusalem and the temple of their God, the Lord, they were thrown into turmoil, 3because they had only recently come up from the exile; only lately had all the people of Judea been gathered again, and the vessels, the altar, and the house been hallowed after their defilement. 4So they sent word into every district of Samaria, and to Kona, Beth-horon, Belmain, and Jericho, and to Choba, Aesora, and the valley of Salem.
