Judith 4:8

⁶Also Joakim the high priest, which was in those days in Jerusalem, wrote to them that dwelt in Bethulia, and Betomasthaim, which is over against Esdraelon toward the open country, near to Dothan,

⁷charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was strait, for two men at the most.

— Judith 4:8 —

⁹Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls:

¹⁰both they, and their wives, and their children, and their cattle, and every stranger and hireling, and their servants bought with money, put sackcloth upon their loins.