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Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.
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Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king's army six hundred men.
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Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and supposing that the king was upon him,
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Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his people, and get him a perpetual name:
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Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.
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Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and there he died.
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Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king, and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.
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Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount Sion.
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But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.
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So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.
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As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.