Judith 1:7-9

New Catholic Bible

Nebuchadnezzar’s Message to Many Peoples. ⁷ Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians, sent messengers to all the inhabitants of Persia, and to all who lived in the west: those who dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, Lebanon and Anti-lebanon, to all who lived along the seacoast, ⁸ to the peoples of Carmel and Gilead, Upper Galilee, and the great plain of Esdraelon, ⁹ to all those who were in Samaria and its towns, and beyond the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, Bethany, Chelous, Kadesh, and the River of Egypt, to Tahpanhes, Rameses, and the whole land of Goshen,