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And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.
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So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city.
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Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:
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Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.
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Now when it was told the king's servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,