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1These people sent messengers to Holofernes with this petition for peace:
5The messengers went to Holofernes and told him all this.
6Then Holofernes went down to the seacoast with his army, stationed garrisons in all the fortified towns, and drafted the best men there as reserve troops.
7All the people along the coast and in the surrounding areas welcomed him, wearing garlands, dancing, and playing tambourines.
8But Holofernes demolished all their shrines and cut down their sacred groves. For King Nebuchadnezzar had commanded him to destroy all the gods of the land so that he alone might be served as a god in the nations conquered by Holofernes.[#3:8 As in Syriac version; Greek reads borders.]
9Then he came to the plain of Esdraelon, near Dothan, a village facing the great ridge of Judea.
10He camped between Geba and Scythopolis, and he stayed there for a whole month to collect all the provisions his army needed.