Judith 2:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ They then decreed that all those who had not responded to the king’s summons were to be put to death.

⁴ When he had completed his plan, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, summoned Holofernes,^[a] the highest-ranking general in his army, and second only to him in power, and he said to him, ⁵ “Thus says the great king, the lord of all the earth: ‘Go forth from my presence and take with you men of unquestioned valor, one hundred and twenty thousand infantrymen and twelve thousand cavalry.