43
Now then you will do well to send me men who will help me, for all my troops have revolted."
44
So Jonathan sent three thousand stalwart men to him at Antioch, and when they came to the king, the king rejoiced at their arrival.
45
Then the men of the city assembled within the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand, and they wanted to kill the king.
46
But the king fled into the palace. Then the men of the city seized the main streets of the city and began to fight.
47
So the king called the Jews to his aid, and they all rallied about him and then spread out through the city; and they killed on that day as many as a hundred thousand men.
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