perpetual name:
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Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of
the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that
they were divided from him on both sides.
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Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him
under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him,
and there he died.
1 Mac 6:47
Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king,
and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.
1 Mac 6:48
Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and
the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount
Sion.
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But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they
came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to
endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.
1 Mac 6:50
So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep
it.
1 Mac 6:51
As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there
artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones,
and pieces to cast darts and slings.
1 Mac 6:52
Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and
held them battle a long season.
1 Mac 6:53
Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for
that it was the seventh year, and they in Judea that were
delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the
store;)
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There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the
famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to
disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
1 Mac 6:55
At that time Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus
the king, whiles he lived, had appointed to bring up his son
Antiochus, that he might be king,
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Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king's host
also that went with him, and that he sought to take unto him the
ruling of the affairs.
1 Mac 6:57
Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the
captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our
victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is
strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
1 Mac 6:58
Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make
peace with them, and with all their nation;
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And covenant with them, that they shall live after their
laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and
have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.
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