Judith 1:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ And many people joined him—everyone who lived in the highlands, everyone who lived along the Euphrates, the Tigris, the Hydaspes, and on the plain of Arioch, king of the Elymeans. Many nations joined forces with the Assyrians.^[a]

Nebuchadnezzar’s ultimatum

⁷ King Nebuchadnezzar of the Assyrians sent a message to everyone who lived in Persia, to everyone who lived in the west—those who lived in Cilicia, Damascus, Lebanon, and Anti-Lebanon, and everyone who lived along the seashore, ⁸ and those among the nations of Carmel and Gilead, and upper Galilee and the great plain of Esdraelon,