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1 Machabees 4:21-27 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

21. And when they had seen this, they were seized with great fear, seeing at the same time Judas and his army in the plain ready to fight.

22. So they all fled away into the land of the strangers.

23. And Judas returned to take the spoils of the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches.

24. And returning home they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven, because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.

25. So Israel had a great deliverance that day.

26. And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that had happened.

27. And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded.

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