Judith 5:1-2

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Council against the Israelites

5 When Holofer′nes, the general of the Assyrian army, heard that the people of Israel had prepared for war and had closed the passes in the hills and fortified all the high hilltops and set up barricades in the plains, ² he was very angry. So he called together all the princes of Moab and the commanders of Ammon and all the governors of the coastland,