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And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, "Whosoever is zealous for the law and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me!"
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So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city.
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Then many who sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness to dwell there,
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both they and their children and their wives and their cattle, because afflictions increased sorely upon them.
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Now when it was told the king's servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem in the City of David, that certain men who had broken the king's commandment had gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,
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