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And he pursued him by the descent of Bethoron even to the plain, and there fell of them eight hundred men, and the rest fled into the land of the Philistines.
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And the fear of Judas and of his brethren, and the dread of them fell upon all the nations round about them.
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And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the battles of Judas.
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Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an exceeding strong army.
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And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.
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And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times:
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And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough, for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.
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And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
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And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the kingdom, from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt:
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And to bring up his son Antiochus, till he came again.
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And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem: