Judith 3:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ After the envoys had been received by Holofernes and they told him all this, ⁶ he went down with his army to the seacoast and stationed garrisons in all the fortified towns, assigning picked men from them to serve as auxiliaries. ⁷ The people of these cities and all the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside welcomed him with garlands and dancing to the sound of tambourines.^[a]