26
Those of the foreigners who escaped went and reported to Lysias all that had happened.
27
When he heard it, he was perplexed and discouraged, for things had not happened to Israel as he had intended, nor had they turned out as the king had ordered.
28
But the next year he mustered sixty thousand picked infantry and five thousand cavalry to subdue them.
29
They came into Idumea and encamped at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
30
When he saw that their army was strong, he prayed, saying, "Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who crushed the attack of the mighty warrior by the hand of your servant David, and gave the camp of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan son of Saul, and of the man who carried his armor.
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