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1 Maccabees 4:19-23 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

19. Judas was just finishing his speech when an enemy patrol on a scouting mission looked down from the mountains

20. and saw that their army had been put to flight; they could tell from the smoke that their camp was burning.

21. When they saw all this, they were terrified, and when they also saw that Judas' army was in the plain ready for battle,

22. they all fled to Philistia.

23. Then Judas returned to loot the enemy camp; he took large amounts of gold and silver, blue and purple cloth, and other rich plunder.

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