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In the first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year they encamped against Jerusalem;
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then they marched off and went to Berea with twenty thousand foot soldiers and two thousand cavalry.
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Now Judas was encamped in Elasa, and with him were three thousand picked men.
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When they saw the huge number of the enemy forces, they were greatly frightened, and many slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them were left.
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When Judas saw that his army had slipped away and the battle was imminent, he was crushed in spirit, for he had no time to assemble them.