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About this time they that were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.
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Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.
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So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and other engines.
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Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:
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And they went unto the king, and said, How long will it be ere thou execute judgment, and avenge our brethren?