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1 Maccabees 5:30-37 World English Bible (WEB)

30. And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them.

31. And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound,

32. and he said to the men of his host, Fight this day for your brethren.

33. And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer.

34. And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men.

35. And he turned aside to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burned it with fire.

36. From thence he removed, and took Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead.

37. Now after these things Timotheus gathered another army, and encamped over against Raphon beyond the brook.

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