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And early in the morning they looked up and, behold, there were innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war to take the fortress; for they assaulted them.
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When Judas therefore saw that the battle had begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven with trumpets and a great sound,
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he said unto his host, "Fight this day for your brethren."
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So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets and cried out in prayer.
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Then the host of Timothy, knowing that it was Maccabeus, fled from him. Therefore he smote them with a great slaughter, so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.
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