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1 Machabees 11:44-49 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

44. And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was very glad of their coming.

45. And they that were of the city assembled themselves together, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have killed the king.

46. And the king fled into the palace, and they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

47. And the king called the Jews to his assistance: and they came to him all at once, and they all dispersed themselves through the city.

48. And they slew in that day a hundred thousand men, and they set fire to the city, and got many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

49. And they that were of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would: and they were discouraged in their minds, and cried to the king, making supplication, and saying:

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