2 Then as soon as the sun comes up tomorrow morning, all of you strong men choose a leader for yourselves. Take your weapons and march out of town, as if you were going into the valley to attack the Assyrian guards on duty there.
3 When they see you, they will grab their weapons and run back to their camp and wake up their officers, who will rush to the tent of General Holofernes. They will panic when they find his dead body, and the entire Assyrian army will run from you in terror.
4 Then you and everyone else in Israel will kill them as they run away.
5 But before you do any of this, bring Achior the Ammonite here. I want him to see the head of the man who insulted the nation of Israel and who sent him to Bethulia to be killed along with the rest of us.
6 Achior was brought from Uzziah's house, and when he saw the head of Holofernes in the hands of one of the men, he fainted and collapsed on the ground.
7 Achior was helped to his feet, and at once he bowed down to show his respect for Judith. He said, “Every family in Judea thanks you, and I pray that all nations will shake with fear when your name is mentioned.
8 Please tell me how you did it.”Judith told Achior and the crowd everything that had happened from the day she left Bethulia until she returned.