Judith 6:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² When the men of that town saw them approaching, they picked up their weapons and ran to the top of the hill. Every man who used a sling as a weapon rained stones down on Holofernes' soldiers, and this stopped them from coming any farther up the mountain. ¹³ The Assyrians were forced to take cover along the mountainside, where they tied Achior up and left him lying at the foot of the mountain. Then they returned to Holofernes.

¹⁴ Later, when the Israelites came down from Bethulia, they untied Achior, brought him into the town, and took him before the town officials,