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Areus, King of the Lacedemonians, to Onias, sendeth
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Hereupon Lysias was confounded at the defeat of the army which he
had sent, and the next year he got together sixty thousand chosen men.
He also took five thousand horsemen, and fell upon Judea; and he went up
to the hill country of Bethsur, a village of Judea, and pitched his camp
there, where Judas met him with ten thousand men; and when he saw the great
number of his enemies, he prayed to God that he would assist him, and joined
battle with the first of the enemy that appeared, and beat them, and slew
about five thousand of them, and thereby became terrible to the rest of
them. Nay, indeed, Lysias observing the great spirit of the Jews, how they
were prepared to die rather than lose their liberty, and being afraid of
their desperate way of fighting, as if it were real strength, he took the
rest of the army back with him, and returned to Antioch, where he listed
foreigners into the service, and prepared to fall upon Judea with a greater
army.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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