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They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us and our wives and children, and to despoil us;
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but we fight for our lives and our laws.
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Therefore the Lord Himself will overthrow them before our face; and as for you, be ye not afraid of them."
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Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leaped suddenly upon them; and so Seron and his host were overthrown before him.
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And they pursued them from the descent of Beth-horon unto the plain, where about eight hundred men of them were slain, and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
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Then the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, began to fall upon the nations round about them,
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insomuch that his fame came unto the king; and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.
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Now when King Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation. Therefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.
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He opened also his treasury and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.
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Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasuries failed and that the tributes from the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old times,
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he feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before; for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.