The .vi. Chapter.
1 Holophernes blasphemeth God, whom Achior confessed. 14 Achior is deliuered into the handes of them of Bethulia. 18 The Bethulians crye vnto the Lorde.
[unspec A] 1 SO when they had left of speaking, Holopher∣nes toke sore indigna∣tion, and sayde vnto Achior:
2 For so much as thou hast prophesied vnto vs, saying, That the people of Israel shalbe defended of their God: I will shew thee that there is no God but Nabuchodonosor,
3 Yea, when we slay them al as one man, thou also shalt perishe with them through the sword of the Assyrians, and all Israel shalbe destroyed with thee:
4 And then shalt thou feele that Nabu∣chodonosor is the lorde of the whole earth: then shal the sword of my knight∣hood go through thy sides, & thou shalt fall downe stickte among the wounded of Israel, and * 1.1 shalt not come to thy selfe agayne, but be vtterly destroyed with them.
5 Furthermore, if thou thinkest thy prophesie to be true, why doest thou then chaunge thy colour? why art thou afrayde? Thinkest thou that my wordes are not able to be perfourmed?
6 But that thou mayest knowe that thou shalt feele these thinges with them, beholde from this houre foorth will I send thee vnto yonder people, that when the punishement of my sworde (whiche they haue worthyly deserued) falleth vpon them, thou mayest be punished with them.
7 So Holophernes commaunded his ser∣uauntes [unspec B] to take Achior, & to cary him vn∣to Bethulia, and to deliuer him into the handes of the children of Israel.
8 Then Holophernes seruauntes toke