2 Who art thou, Achior, with the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied to us this day, and said that we should not make war against the people of Israel, because God protects them? Who is God if not Nebuchadnezzar? He will send his power and wipe them out from off the face of the earth, and God will not deliver them away.

3 But we, his servants, will smite them as one man, and they will not be able to stand against the strength of our horses.

4 Мы растопчем их; горы их упьются их кровью, равнины их наполнятся их трупами, и не станет стопа ног их против нашего лица, но гибелью погибнут они, говорит царь Навуходоносор, господин всей земли. Ибо он сказал, — и не напрасны будут слова повелений его.

5 А ты, Ахиор, наемник Аммона, высказавший слова эти в день неправды твоей, от сего дня не увидишь больше лица моего, доколе я не отомщу этому народу, пришедшему из Египта.

6 Когда же я возвращусь, меч войска моего и толпа слуг моих пройдет по ребрам твоим, — и ты падешь между ранеными их.

7 Рабы мои отведут тебя в нагорную страну и оставят в одном из городов на высотах,

8 и ты не умрешь там, доколе не будешь с ними истреблен.

9 But if thou trustest in thy heart that they shall not be taken, let not thy countenance be fallen. I have spoken, and not one of my words will be lost.

10 And Holofernes commanded his servants, who were standing in his tent, to take Achior, and to bring him to Bethulia, and to deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.

11 And the servants seized him, and brought him out of the camp into the field, and from the midst of the plain they went up into the hill country, and came to the springs which were under Bethuliah.

12 And when the inhabitants of the city saw them on the top of the mountain, they took up their arms, and went out of the city to the top of the mountain, and all the slingers guarded their rising, and threw stones at them.

13 And they came under the mountain, and bound Achior, and leaving him abandoned at the foot of the mountain, they went to their master.

14 And the children of Israel, having gone out of their own city, stopped over it, and loosed it, and brought it to Bethula, and presented it to the rulers of their city,

15 And in those days were Uzziah the son of Micah of the tribe of Simeon, Havri the son of Othniel, and Harmiah the son of Melchiel.