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14So Holofernes left the presence of his master, and called together all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian army, The campaign of Holofernes. Jdth.2.14-28
15and mustered the picked troops by divisions as his lord had ordered him to do, one hundred and twenty thousand of them, together with twelve thousand archers on horseback,  
16and he organized them as a great army is marshaled for a campaign.  
17He collected a vast number of camels and asses and mules for transport, and innumerable sheep and oxen and goats for provision;  
18also plenty of food for every man, and a huge amount of gold and silver from the royal palace.  
19So he set out with his whole army, to go ahead of King Nebuchadnezzar and to cover the whole face of the earth to the west with their chariots and horsemen and picked troops of infantry.  
20Along with them went a mixed crowd like a swarm of locusts, like the dust of the earth - a multitude that could not be counted.  
21They marched for three days from Nineveh to the plain of Bectileth, and camped opposite Bectileth near the mountain which is to the north of Upper Cilicia.  
22From there Holofernes took his whole army, his infantry, cavalry, and chariots, and went up into the hill country  
23and ravaged Put and Lud, and plundered all the people of Rassis and the Ishmaelites who lived along the desert, south of the country of the Chelleans.  
24Then he followed the Euphrates and passed through Mesopotamia and destroyed all the hilltop cities along the brook Abron, as far as the sea.  
25He also seized the territory of Cilicia, and killed every one who resisted him, and came to the southern borders of Japheth, fronting toward Arabia.  
26He surrounded all the Midianites, and burned their tents and plundered their sheepfolds.  
27Then he went down into the plain of Damascus during the wheat harvest, and burned all their fields and destroyed their flocks and herds and sacked their cities and ravaged their lands and put to death all their young men with the edge of the sword.  
28So fear and terror of him fell upon all the people who lived along the seacoast, at Sidon and Tyre, and those who lived in Sur and Ocina and all who lived in Jamnia. Those who lived in Azotus and Ascalon feared him exceedingly.