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He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all who were therein.
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Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power and many people, with Timothy their captain.
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So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
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And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.
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Then the heathen who were at Gilead assembled themselves together against the Israelites who were in their borders to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema,
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and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren: "The heathen who are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us.
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And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we have fled, Timothy being captain of their host.
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Come now therefore and deliver us from their hands, for many of us have been slain.
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Yea, all our brethren who were in the places of Tob are put to death. Their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their goods, and they have destroyed there about a thousand men."
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While these letters were yet being read, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported in this manner
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and said, "They of Ptolemais, and of Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles are assembled together against us to consume us."