52
Then they crossed the Jordan into the large plain before Beth-shan.
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Judas kept rallying the laggards and encouraging the people all the way until he came to the land of Judah.
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So they went up to Mount Zion with joy and gladness, and offered burnt offerings, because they had returned in safety; not one of them had fallen.
55
Now while Judas and Jonathan were in Gilead and their brother Simon was in Galilee before Ptolemais,
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Joseph son of Zechariah, and Azariah, the commanders of the forces, heard of their brave deeds and of the heroic war they had fought.
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