Good News Translation
But Holofernes destroyed all their places of worship and cut down their sacred trees. He had been ordered to destroy all the gods of the land so that all the nations and tribes would worship only Nebuchadnezzar and pray to him as a god.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet he demolished all their shrines and cut down their sacred groves; for he had been commissioned to destroy all the gods of the land, so that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar alone, and that all their dialects and tribes should call upon him as a god.

Contemporary English Version
But when Holofernes arrived, he tore down all their places of worship and cut down their sacred poles. He did this because he had been ordered to get rid of their idols, so that every nation and tribe would worship only Nebuchadnezzar and pray to him as if he were a god.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war,

And from all the cities he took auxiliaries valiant men, and chosen for war,

Judith 3:6
Come to us a peaceable lord, and use our service as it shall please thee,

Judith 3:7
Then he came down from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and made himself master of every city, and all the inhabitants of the land.

Judith 3:9
And so great a fear lay upon all those provinces, that the inhabitants of all the cities, both princes and nobles, as well as the people, went out to meet him at his coming.

Judith 3:10
And received him with garlands, and lights, and dances, and timbrels, and flutes.