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1 Maccabees 11:42-47 World English Bible (WEB)

42. And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation, if I find fair occasion.

43. Now therefore you shall do well, if you send me men who shall fight for me; for all my forces are revolted.

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

45. And they of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and they were minded to kill the king.

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

47. And the king called the Jews to help him, and they were gathered together to him all at once, and they dispersed themselves in the city, and killed that day to the number of a hundred thousand.

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