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Moreover, of those who were with Timothy and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high strongholds, and divided amongst themselves many more spoils, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
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And when they had gathered their arms together, they laid them all up carefully in suitable places, and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Jerusalem.
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They slew also Philarches, that wicked person who was with Timothy and had annoyed the Jews many ways.
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Furthermore, at such time that they kept the feast for the victory in their country, they burned Callisthenes, who had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness.
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As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews,
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he was, through the help of the Lord, brought down by those of whom he made least account; and, putting off his glorious apparel and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch, having very great dishonor, for his host was destroyed.
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Thus he that took upon him to make good the tribute for the Romans by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt because they followed the laws that He gave them.