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Then Judas ordered proclamation to be made to the army that all should encamp where they were.
50
So the men of the forces encamped, and he fought against the town all that day and all the night, and the town was delivered into his hands.
51
He destroyed every male by the edge of the sword, and razed and plundered the town. Then he passed through the town over the bodies of the dead.
52
Then they crossed the Jordan into the large plain before Beth-shan.
53
Judas kept rallying the laggards and encouraging the people all the way until he came to the land of Judah.
54
So they went up to Mount Zion with joy and gladness, and offered burnt offerings, because they had returned in safety; not one of them had fallen.
55
Now while Judas and Jonathan were in Gilead and their brother Simon was in Galilee before Ptolemais,
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Joseph son of Zechariah, and Azariah, the commanders of the forces, heard of their brave deeds and of the heroic war they had fought.
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So they said, "Let us also make a name for ourselves; let us go and make war on the Gentiles around us."
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So they issued orders to the men of the forces that were with them and marched against Jamnia.
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Gorgias and his men came out of the town to meet them in battle.