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At dawn they looked out and saw a large company, which could not be counted, carrying ladders and engines of war to capture the stronghold, and attacking the Jews within.
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So Judas saw that the battle had begun and that the cry of the town went up to Heaven, with trumpets and loud shouts,
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and he said to the men of his forces, "Fight today for your kindred!"
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Then he came up behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets and cried aloud in prayer.
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And when the army of Timothy realized that it was Maccabeus, they fled before him, and he dealt them a heavy blow. As many as eight thousand of them fell that day.
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