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Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day unto the banks of Jordan with a great power.
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Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:
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For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.
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Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.
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With that they joined battle, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to smite Bacchides, but he turned back from him.
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Then Jonathan and they that were with him leapt into Jordan, and swam over unto the other bank: howbeit the other passed not over Jordan unto them.
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So there were slain of Bacchides' side that day about a thousand men.
50
Afterward returned Bacchides to Jerusalem and repaired the strong cites in Judea; the fort in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, and Taphon, these did he strengthen with high walls, with gates and with bars.
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And in them he set a garrison, that they might work malice upon Israel.
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He fortified also the city Bethsura, and Gazera, and the tower, and put forces in them, and provision of victuals.
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Besides, he took the chief men's sons in the country for hostages, and put them into the tower at Jerusalem to be kept.