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When the neighboring nations heard that the Jews had built the altar and restored the Temple as it had been before, they were so furious
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that they made up their minds to destroy all the Jews who were living among them. So they began to murder and kill our people.
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The Idumeans were blockading the Israelites, so Judas went to war against them at Akrabattene, crushed them, and looted them.
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He also dealt with the people of Baean, who were a constant threat to the people of Israel, because they would lie in ambush waiting to trap Israelite travelers.
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He shut the Baeanites up in their forts, took a solemn oath that he would destroy them, and burned their forts with everyone in them.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.