9 and I will deport them as exiles to the very ends of the earth.
10 “Go before me and take possession of all their territories for me. If they surrender to you, guard them for me until the day of their sentencing.
11 As for those who disobey, show them no mercy, but deliver them up to slaughter and plunder in all the land you occupy.
12 For as I live, and by the strength of my kingdom, what I have spoken I will accomplish by my own hand.
13 Do not disobey a single one of the orders of your lord; fulfill them exactly as I have commanded you, and do it without delay.”
14 So Holofernes left the presence of his lord, and summoned all the commanders, generals, and officers of the Assyrian forces.
15 He mustered one hundred and twenty thousand picked troops, as his lord had commanded, and twelve thousand mounted archers,