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Thus Israel had a great deliverance that day.
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Now all the strangers who had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened,
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who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he desired were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him had come to pass.
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The next year therefore following, Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men on foot and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
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So they came into Idumea and pitched their tents at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
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And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, "Blessed art Thou, O Savior of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of Thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul and his armorbearer.
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Shut up this army in the hand of Thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen.
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Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away; and let them quake at their destruction.
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Cast them down with the sword of them that love Thee, and let all those that know Thy name praise Thee with thanksgiving."
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So they joined battle, and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men; even before them were they slain.
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Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antioch and gathered together a company of strangers and, having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.