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Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence
unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
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He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them
utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
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Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and
much people, with Timotheus their captain.
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So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he
smote them.
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And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.
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Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that
were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.
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And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled
together against us to destroy us:
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And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being
captain of their host.
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Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:
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Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death: their wives and their
children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed
there about a thousand men.
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While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with
their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,
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And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, are
assembled together against us to consume us.
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Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation
together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of
them.
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Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, and go and deliver thy brethren
that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.
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So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and PrAzarias, captains of the people, with the remnant
of the host in Judea to keep it.
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Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that
ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.
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Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight
thousand men for the country of Galaad.
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Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the
heathen were discomfited by him.
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And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about
three thousand men, whose spoils he took.
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