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and gathered together a great number of captives, and had dominion over Gazara and Beth-zur and the tower, out of which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any who resisted him.
5
And as he was honorable in all his acts, so in this: that he took Joppa for a haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,
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and enlarged the bounds of his nation and recovered the country,
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and gathered together a great number of captives, and had dominion over Gazara and Beth-zur and the tower, out of which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any who resisted him.
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Then did they till their ground in peace; and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.
9
The aged men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
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