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But those who were within it put such trust in the strength of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved themselves rudely toward those who were with Judas, railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.
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Therefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world (who without rams or engines of war cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua), gave a fierce assault against the walls
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and took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake a quarter of a mile nearby adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.
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Then they departed from thence ninety-five miles and came to Charax unto the Jews who are called Tubianites.
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But as for Timothy, they found him not in the places; for before he had dispatched anything, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain stronghold.
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However Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus' captains, went forth and slew those whom Timothy had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.
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And Maccabeus arranged his army by bands, and set them over the bands, and went against Timothy, who had about him a hundred and twenty thousand men on foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
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Now when Timothy had knowledge of Judas' coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnaim; for the town was hard to besiege and difficult to come unto by reason of the narrowness of all the places.
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But when Judas' first band came in sight, the enemies, being smitten with fear and terror through the appearing of Him that seeth all things, fled amain, one running this way, another that way, so that they were often hurt by their own men and wounded with the points of their own swords.
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Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.
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Moreover Timothy himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews' parents and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, would not be regarded.