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Now therefore send them back to their own houses: and choose thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for this is the cause of my coming.
46
And Jonathan believed him, and did as he said: and sent away his army, and they departed into the land of Juda:
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But he kept with him three thousand men: of whom he sent two thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.
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Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates of the city, and took him: and all them that came in with him they slew with the sword.
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Then Tryphon sent an army and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain to destroy all Jonathan's company.