1So they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying, 2Beholde, we are the seruants of Nabuchodonosor the great king: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as shalbe good in thy sight. 3Beholde, our houses and all our places, and all our fieldes of wheate, & our flocks, and our heards, and all our lodges and tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee. 4Beholde, euen our cities and the inhabitantes therof are thy seruants come, and take them, as seemeth good to thee. 5So the men came to Olofernes, and declared vnto them after this maner. 6The came he downe toward ye sea coast, both he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and tooke out of them chosen men for the warre. 7So they and all the countrey round about receiued them, with crownes, with daunces, and with timbrels. 8Yet he brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woods: for it was inioyned him to destroy al the gods of the land, that al nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, & that all tongues and tribes should call vpon him as God. 9Also he came against Esdrælon, neere vnto Iudea, ouer against the great straite of Iudea, 10And he pitched betweene Geba, and a citie of ye Scythians, & there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.