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Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain to destroy all Jonathan's company.
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But they, when they understood that Jonathan and all that were with him were taken and slain, encouraged one another, and went out ready for battle.
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Then they that had come after them, seeing that they stood for their lives, returned back.
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Whereupon they all came peaceably into the land of Juda. And they bewailed Jonathan, and them that had been with him, exceedingly: and Israel mourned with great lamentation.
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Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said:
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They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst mem.