48
Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our country: and no man shall hurt you: we will only pass through on foot. But they would not open to them.
46
And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city situate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of it.
47
And they that were in the city, shut themselves in, and stopped up the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,
48
Saying: Let us pass through your land, to go into our country: and no man shall hurt you: we will only pass through on foot. But they would not open to them.
49
Then Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the camp, that they should make an assault every man in the place where he was.
50
And the men of the army drew near, and he assaulted that city all the day, and all the night, and the city was delivered into his hands: