Good News Translation
They immediately occupied the mountaintops, fortified the villages on the mountains, and stored up food in preparation for war. It was fortunate that they had recently harvested their fields.

New Revised Standard Version
They immediately seized all the high hilltops and fortified the villages on them and stored up food in preparation for war—since their fields had recently been harvested.

Contemporary English Version
Since their fields had already been harvested, they immediately began preparing for war by setting up defenses in the hill country, by fortifying the towns there, and by storing up food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way,

And Eliachim the priest wrote to all that were over against Esdrelon, which faceth the great plain near Dothain, and to all by whom there might be a passage of way,

Judith 4:3
And they sent into all Samaria round about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon all the tops of the mountains:

Judith 4:4
And they compassed their towns with walls and gathered together corn for provision for war.

Judith 4:6
that they should take possession of the ascents of the mountains, by which there might be any way to Jerusalem, and should keep watch where the way was narrow between the mountains.

Judith 4:7
And the children of Israel did as the priests of the Lord Eliachim had appointed them.