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CHAP. II. Nabuchodonosor sendeth Holofernes his General to Waist al countries of the West. 7. With a great armie, and aboundant munition. 11. They subdue manie places, and others are strooken With great feare.

IN the thirtenth yeare of king Nabuchodonosor, the two [ 1] and twenteth day of the first moneth, the word was geuen out in the house of Nabuchodonosor the king of the Assy∣rians, that he would reuenge him selfe. † And he called al [ 2] the ancientes, and al the captaynes, and his men of warre, and communicated with them the secrete of his counsel: † and [ 3] he said that his cogitation was vpon that, to subdew al the earth to his empire. † which saying when it had pleased them [ 4] al, Nabuchodonosor the king called Holofernes the Gene∣ral of his warres, † and said to him: Goe forth against euerie [ 5] kingdom of the west, & against them especially, that contem∣ned my commandment. †:: Thyne eie shal spare no king∣dom, [ 6] and euerie ••ensed citie thou shalt ••ubdew to me. † Then [ 7] Holofernes called the captaynes, & magistrates of the powre of the Assyrians: and he mustered men for the expedition, as the king commanded him, an hundred twentie thousand figh∣ting

men on foote, and twelue thousand archers horsemen. † And he made al his expedition to goe before in a multitude [ 8] of inumerable camels, with those thinges that might suffice the armies abundantly, heardes of oxen also, and flockes of sheepe, which had no number. † He appoynted corne to be [ 9] prepared out of al Syria in his passage. † But gold and siluer [ 10] he tooke out of the kings house exceding much. † And he [ 11] went forth and al the armie with the chariotes, & horsemen, and the archers, which couered the face of the earth, as lo∣custes. † And when he had passed through the coastes of the [ 12] Assyrians, he came to the great mountaines of Ange, which are on the left hand of Cilicia: and he went vp into al theit casteles, and wonne euerie fortresse. † And he brake downe [ 13] the renowmed citie of Melothus, and spoyled al the children of Thersis, and the children of Ismael, which wete against the face of the desert, and on the south of the land of Cellon. † And he passed ouer Euphrates, and came into Mesopota∣mia: [ 14] and he brake al the high cities, that were there, from the torrent of Membre, til ye come to the sea: † and he tooke [ 15] the borders therof, from Cilicia vnto the coastes of Iapheth, which are toward the south. † And he caried away al the [ 16] children of Madian, and spoyled al their riches, and al that resisted him he slew in the edge of the sword. † And after [ 17] these thinges he went downe into the fieldes of Damascus in the daies of haruest, and he set al the corne on fire, and he made al the trees and vineyardes to be cut downe; † and the [ 18] feare of him fel vpon al the inhabitantes of the land.

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  This cruel cōmandment was as cruelly put in execu∣tion by Holo∣fernes, ch. 3. ••. 11.