Judith 2:2
Good News Translation
The king called his general staff and senior officers together and reported in detail how those countries had betrayed him. He and his officers agreed that everyone who had refused to help him in the war should be put to death. Then he described to them his plan of attack.

New Revised Standard Version
He summoned all his ministers and all his nobles and set before them his secret plan and recounted fully, with his own lips, all the wickedness of the region.

Contemporary English Version
Nebuchadnezzar called together his highest officials and respected leaders, then explained that some nations had refused to be his allies. He told how he planned to destroy these rebellious nations,

New American Bible
He summoned all his attendants and officers, laid before them his secret plan, and with his own lips recounted in full detail the wickedness of all the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:

Judith 1:12
Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries.

Judith 2:1
In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.

Judith 2:3
And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under his empire.

Judith 2:4
And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,

Context
Judith 2
1In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself. 2And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel: 3And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under his empire.…
Cross References
Judith 1:12
Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries.

Judith 2:1
In the thirteenth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, the two and twentieth day of the first month, the word was given out in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, that he would revenge himself.

Judith 2:3
And he said that his thoughts were to bring all the earth under his empire.

Judith 2:4
And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,



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