1 In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke. (WEB) 2 He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and with his own mouth, recounted the wickedness of all the land. (WEB) 3 They decreed to destroy all flesh which didn’t follow the word of his mouth. (WEB)
Judith 2:1–3
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