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Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius' princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,
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He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.
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He sent spies also unto their tents, who came again, and told him that they were appointed to come upon them in the night season.
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Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.
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But when the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp.