"Now these men will wipe clean the face of the earth, for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight."
Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires on their towers, they remained and watched all that night.
But on the second day, Holofernes brought forth all his horsemen in the sight of the children of Israel, who were in Bethulia, and viewed the passages up to the city;
and he went to the origins of their waters and captured them, and he set garrisons of men of war over them, and he himself returned toward his people.