therein, and
received the spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire.
1 Mac 5:36
From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the
other cities of the country of Galaad.
1 Mac 5:37
After these things gathered Timotheus another host and
encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.
1 Mac 5:38
So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word,
saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled
unto them, even a very great host.
1 Mac 5:39
He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have
pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight
against thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them.
1 Mac 5:40
Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas
and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us,
we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily
prevail against us:
1 Mac 5:41
But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go
over unto him, and prevail against him.
1 Mac 5:42
Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of
the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave
commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but
let all come to the battle.
1 Mac 5:43
So he went first over unto them, and all the people after
him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast
away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at
Carnaim.
1 Mac 5:44
But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that
were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand
any longer before Judas.
1 Mac 5:45
Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in
the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even
their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great
host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea.
1 Mac 5:46
Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the
way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn
from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs
pass through the midst of it.
1 Mac 5:47
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates
with stones.
1 Mac 5:48
Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying,
Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and
none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot:
howbeit they would not open unto him.
1 Mac 5:49
Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made
throughout t
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