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WHEN these things were over, the nations round about the Jews were
very uneasy at the revival of their power, and rose up together, and destroyed
many of them, as gaining advantage over them by laying snares for them,
and making secret conspiracies against them. Judas made perpetual expeditions
against these men, and endeavored to restrain them from those incursions,
and to prevent the mischiefs they did to the Jews. So he fell upon the
Idumeans, the posterity of Esau, at Acrabattene, and slew a great many
of them, and took their spoils. He also shut up the sons of Bean, that
laid wait for the Jews; and he sat down about them, and besieged them,
and burnt their towers, and destroyed the men [that were in them]. After
this he went thence in haste against the Ammonites, who had a great and
a numerous army, of which Timotheus was the commander. And when he had
subdued them, he seized on the city Jazer, and took their wives and their
children captives, and burnt the city, and then returned into Judea. But
when the neighboring nations understood that he was returned, they got
together in great numbers in the land of Gilead, and came against those
Jews that were at their borders, who then fled to the garrison of Dathema;
and sent to Judas, to inform him that Timotheus was endeavoring to take
the place whither they were fled. And as these epistles were reading, there
came other messengers out of Galilee, who informed him that the inhabitants
of Ptolemais, and of Tyre and Sidon, and strangers of Galilee, were gotten
together.
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