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Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king, and the violence of his forces,
turned away from them.
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Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against
Judea, and against mount Sion.
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But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because
they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.
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So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.
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As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and
instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.
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Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.
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Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the seventh year, and they
in Judea that were delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store;)
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There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them,
that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
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At that time Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he lived, had
appointed to bring up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,
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Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king's host also that went with him, and that
he sought to take unto him the ruling of the affairs.
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Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the
company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong,
and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
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Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their
nation;
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And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are
therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.
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So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent unto them to make peace; and
they accepted thereof.
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Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them: whereupon they went out of the strong
hold.
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Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the strength of the place, he broke
his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
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Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antiochia, where he found Philip to be
master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.
CHAPTER MACCABEES 7
In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and
came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
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