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Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew
him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.
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Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius' sword also, and therewith he fought all
his life long.
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Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered unto him
a multitude and company of the faithful to go out with him to war;
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He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and
them that are with him, who despise the king's commandment.
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So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help
him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.
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And when he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, Judas went forth to meet him with a
small company:
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Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, How shall we be able,
being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with
fasting all this day?
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Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few;
and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:
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For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from
heaven.
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They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children,
and to spoil us:
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But we fight for our lives and our laws.
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Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not
afraid of them.
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Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his
host was overthrown before him.
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And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain
about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
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Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, to fall upon the
nations round about them:
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Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.
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Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent
and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.
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He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be
ready whensoever he should need them.
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Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the
country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in
taking away the laws which had been of old time;
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