We hear Nebuchadnezzar’s instructions to his general, Holofernes. It makes grim reading. He is coming to exact punishment on those countries he regards as having betrayed him. he wants their unconditional surrender, but promises he will kill their soldiers and plunder them anyway, whether they surrender or not.
We’re told in detail of the size of army that Holofernes assembled, and we watch its inexorable progress towards Judah. Every nation, fortified town and territory falls before him, fear and panic spread among the people who are next in line, and disaster seems to be about to fall.
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