1 And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Holofer´nes the chief captain of the army of Assyria said unto A´chior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations,
2 And who art thou, A´chior, and the hirelings of E´phra-im, that thou hast prophesied among us as today, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nebuchadnez´zar?
3 He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses.
4 For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nebuchadnez´zar, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.
5 And thou, A´chior, an hireling of Ammon, which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt.