Judith’s Counsel

14 Then Judith said to them, “Listen to me, my friends. Take this head and hang it upon the parapet of your wall.^(A)

² As soon as day breaks and the sun rises on the earth, each of you take up your weapons, and let every able-bodied man go out of the town; set a captain over them, as if you were going down to the plain against the Assyrian outpost; only do not go down.^(A)

⁷ ordering them to seize the mountain passes, since by them Judea could be invaded, and it would be easy to stop any who tried to enter, for the approach was narrow, wide enough for only two at a time to pass.^(A)

³⁵ Judas^[a] hung Nicanor’s head from the citadel, a clear and conspicuous sign to everyone of the help of the Lord.^(A)