Good News Translation
The Israelites carried out the orders given to them by the High Priest Joakim and the Council which met in Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
So the Israelites did as they had been ordered by the high priest Joakim and the senate of the whole people of Israel, in session at Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites obeyed Joakim and the other leaders of Israel who were meeting together in Jerusalem.

New American Bible
and instructed them to keep firm hold of the mountain passes, since these offered access to Judea. It would be easy to stop those advancing, as the approach was only wide enough for two at a time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.

And all the people cried to the Lord with great earnestness, and they humbled their souls in fastings, and prayers, both they and their wives.

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.

Judith 4:9
And the priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth.

Judith 4:10
And they cried to the Lord the God of Israel with one accord, that their children might not be made a prey, and their wives carried off, and their cities destroyed, and their holy things profaned, and that they might not be made a reproach to the Gentiles.