Judith · Brenton's English Septuagint
Judith 3 Brenton's English Septuagint
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Judith is not in RV1909.
1 So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,
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2 Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
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3 Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents, lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.
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4 Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.
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5 So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.
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6 Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid.
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7 So they and all the country round about received him with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.
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8 Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as a god.
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9 Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
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10 And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.
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