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unless you quickly prevent them, they will do still greater things, and you will not be able to stop them."
28
The king was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his Friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.
29
Mercenary forces also came to him from other kingdoms and from islands of the seas.
30
The number of his forces was one hundred thousand foot soldiers, twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants accustomed to war.
31
They came through Idumea and encamped against Beth-zur, and for many days they fought and built engines of war; but the Jews sallied out and burned these with fire, and fought courageously.
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