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Alcimus spoke peaceably to them and made a pledge to them: "We won't seek to injure you or your friends."
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So they trusted him. But he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day. This was in keeping with the written word:
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The flesh of your faithful ones… and their blood they poured out all around Jerusalem; there was no one to bury them.
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Then fear and dread came over all the people. They said, "They are not truthful or just, because they broke the promise they made."
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Bacchides retreated from Jerusalem and camped in Beth-zaith. He captured many of the soldiers and some of the people who had deserted to his side. He killed them and threw them into a great pit.