1. When the commotion of the men who surrounded the council quieted down, Holofernes the general of the Assyrian army said to Achior and all the Moabites in the presence of all the assembled foreigners:
2. “Who are you, Achior, and you soldiers-for-hire from Ephraim, that you prophesy to us as you have today and say that we shouldn’t attack the Israelites because their God will protect them? Who is god except Nebuchadnezzar? He will send his power and destroy them from the earth, and their God won’t rescue them.