Judith 3:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ And these people and all in the country round about welcomed him with garlands and dances and tambourines. ⁸ And he demolished all their shrines^[a] and cut down their sacred groves; for it had been given to him to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnez′zar only, and all their tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.

⁹ Then he came to the edge of Esdrae′lon, near Dothan, fronting the great ridge of Judea;