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So he and his people pitched camp opposite them. And when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself and then the men, seeing him, passed through after him.
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That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen; for the enemies' horsemen were very many.
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Then sounded they with the holy trumpets; whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant retreated to the stronghold.
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At that time was Judas, John's brother, wounded; but John still followed after them until he came to Kedron, which Cendebeus had built.
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So they fled even into the towers in the fields of Azotus; therefore he burned it with fire, so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterwards he returned into the land of Judea in peace.
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Moreover on the plain of Jericho was Ptolemy the son of Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold;
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for he was the high priest's son-in-law.
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Therefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country for himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.
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Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the ministration of them. At that time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Shebat,
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where the son of Abubus, receiving them deceitfully into a little stronghold called Dok, which he had built, made them a great banquet; however he had men hidden there.
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So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, Ptolemy and his men rose up and took their weapons and came upon Simon into the banqueting place, and slew him and his two sons and certain of his servants.