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And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.
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Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
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Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:
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Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
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So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.
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But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,
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O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them.
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Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary, and judge thou him according to his wickedness.
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So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle: but Nicanor's host was discomfited, and he himself was first slain in the battle.
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Now when Nicanor's host saw that he was slain, they cast away their weapons, and fled.
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Then they pursued after them a day's journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.