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They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us:
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But we fight for our lives and our laws.
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Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.
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Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.
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And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
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Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:
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Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.
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Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.
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He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.
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Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;
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He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.