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and they answered in a loud voice, "You are our leader in place of Judas and your brother Jonathan.
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Fight our battles, and all that you say to us we will do."
10
So he assembled all the warriors and hurried to complete the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it on every side.
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He sent Jonathan son of Absalom to Joppa, and with him a considerable army; he drove out its occupants and remained there.
12
Then Trypho left Ptolemais with a large army to invade the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him under guard.
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