1When the nations all around heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary dedicated as it was before, they became very angry,
2and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.
3 have captured their wives and children and goods and have destroyed about a thousand persons there.”
14 had gathered together against them “to annihilate us.”
16When Judas and the people heard these messages, a great assembly was called to determine what they should do for their kindred who were in distress and were being attacked by enemies.
17 of Galilee and Arbatta, with their wives and children, and all they possessed and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.
Judas and Jonathan in Gilead24 are getting ready to attack the strongholds tomorrow and capture and destroy all these people in a single day.”
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30At dawn they looked out and saw a large company, which could not be counted, carrying ladders and engines of war to capture the stronghold and attacking the Jews within.
31So Judas saw that the battle had begun and that the cry of the town went up to heaven, with trumpets and loud shouts,
32 and fought against it and took it, and he killed every male in it, plundered it, and burned it with fire.
36 of the army at the stream and gave them this command, “Permit no one to encamp, but make them all enter the battle.”
43 brother Simon was in Galilee before Ptolemais,
56 and passed through Marisa.
67On that day some priests who wished to do a brave deed fell in battle, for they went out to battle unwisely.
681 Macc 3.41; 4.15, 22But Judas turned aside to Azotus in the land of the Philistines; he tore down their altars, and the carved images of their gods he burned with fire; he plundered the towns and returned to the land of Judah.
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