Geneva(i)
1 So they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying,
2 Beholde, we are the seruants of Nabuchodonosor the great king: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as shalbe good in thy sight.
3 Beholde, our houses and all our places, and all our fieldes of wheate, & our flocks, and our heards, and all our lodges and tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee.
4 Beholde, euen our cities and the inhabitantes therof are thy seruants come, and take them, as seemeth good to thee.
5 So the men came to Olofernes, and declared vnto them after this maner.
6 The came he downe toward ye sea coast, both he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and tooke out of them chosen men for the warre.
7 So they and all the countrey round about receiued them, with crownes, with daunces, and with timbrels.
8 Yet he brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woods: for it was inioyned him to destroy al the gods of the land, that al nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, & that all tongues and tribes should call vpon him as God.
9 Also he came against Esdrælon, neere vnto Iudea, ouer against the great straite of Iudea,
10 And he pitched betweene Geba, and a citie of ye Scythians, & there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.