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And returning home they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.
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So Israel had a great deliverance that day.
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And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that had happened.
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And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded.
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So the year following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
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And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
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And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed, and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul and of his armourbearer.
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Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen.
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Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction.
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Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name, praise thee with hymns.
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And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men.