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who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, "How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?"
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So he made ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him and to be avenged on the children of Israel.
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And when he came near to the ascent of Beth-horon, Judas went forth to meet him with a small company,
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who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, "How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?"
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Unto whom Judas answered, "It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one: to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company.
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For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of a host, but strength cometh from heaven.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.