2
Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.
3
So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not because his plan had become known to the citizens
4
and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great disappointment left there to return to Babylon.
5
Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;
6
that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews; that the Jews had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils that they had taken from the armies they had cut down;
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