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Nevertheless, upon the fifth day early, twenty young men of Maccabeus' company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall manfully and with fierce courage killed all that they met withal.
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Others likewise, ascending after them while they were busied with those who were within, burned the towers and, kindling fires, burned the blasphemers alive. And others broke open the gates and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
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and killed Timothy, who was hidden in a certain pit, and Chaereas his brother, with Apollophanes.
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When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and thanksgiving, who had done such great things for Israel and given them the victory.
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