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and all our kindred who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand persons there."
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They are preparing to come and capture the stronghold to which we have fled, and Timothy is leading their forces.
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Now then, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen,
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and all our kindred who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand persons there."
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While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;
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they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, had gathered together against them "to annihilate us."
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