Judith 2:1-3

Revised Standard Version

The Expedition against the West

2 In the eighteenth year, on the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the palace of Nebuchadnez′zar king of the Assyrians about carrying out his revenge on the whole region, just as he had said. ² He called together all his officers and all his nobles and set forth to them his secret plan and recounted fully, with his own lips, all the wickedness of the region;^{[a] 3} and it was decided that every one who had not obeyed his command should be destroyed.