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1 Maccabees 4
1 Maccabees 4:2
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1 Maccabees 4:2
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He wanted to come to the Jewish camp and attack without warning. Men from the elevated fortress served as his guides.
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Gorgias took five thousand infantry and one thousand select cavalry, and this division moved out secretly at night.
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He wanted to come to the Jewish camp and attack without warning. Men from the elevated fortress served as his guides.
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But Judas heard about it, and he and his warriors moved out to attack the king's forces in Emmaus
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while the division was absent from the camp.
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So when Gorgias entered Judas' camp during the night, there was no one there. He started looking for them in the hills, because he said, "These men are running away from us."
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