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And removing from thence, he came to Damascus, and so passed through all the country.
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Simon also went forth and passed through the country unto Askalon and the strongholds there adjoining, from whence he turned aside to Joppa and won it.
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For he had heard that they would deliver the stronghold unto those who took Demetrius' part; therefore he set a garrison there to keep it.
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After this Jonathan came home again and, calling the elders of the people together, he consulted with them about building strongholds in Judea
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and making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a great mound between the tower and the city to separate it from the city, so that it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in it.
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