Judith 3
Study resource: not ScriptureKing James Version Apocrypha (1769 standardized text) · public domain
1So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,
2Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
3Behold, 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.
4Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.
5So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.
6Then 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.
7So they and all the country round about received them with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.
8Yet 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 god.
9Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
10And 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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1So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,
2Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.
3Behold, 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.
4Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.
5So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.
6Then 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.
7So they and all the country round about received them with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.
8Yet 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 god.
9Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
10And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.
The language it was written in
Probably Hebrew (widely inferred from its Greek's Hebraic style); no Hebrew manuscript survives.
What survives, and where
Greek: complete
The Septuagint text; no Qumran witness exists.
What you are reading here
The KJV Apocrypha (1611), from the Greek — public domain.
The inferred Hebrew original is lost; there is nothing older than the Greek to tag.