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Therefore they thought to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
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Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel; and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
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Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them on the ways.
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He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all who were therein.
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Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power and many people, with Timothy their captain.
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So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
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And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.
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Then the heathen who were at Gilead assembled themselves together against the Israelites who were in their borders to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema,
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and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren: "The heathen who are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us.
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And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we have fled, Timothy being captain of their host.
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Come now therefore and deliver us from their hands, for many of us have been slain.