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Now as for Judas Maccabeus, and his brother Jonathan, they passed
over the river Jordan; and when they had gone three days journey, they
lighted upon the Nabateans, who came to meet them peaceably, and who told
them how the affairs of those in the land of Gilead stood; and how many
of them were in distress, and driven into garrisons, and into the cities
of Galilee; and exhorted him to make haste to go against the foreigners,
and to endeavor to save his own countrymen out of their hands. To this
exhortation Judas hearkened, and returned to the wilderness; and in the
first place fell upon the inhabitants of Bosor, and took the city, and
beat the inhabitants, and destroyed all the males, and all that were able
to fight, and burnt the city. Nor did he stop even when night came on,
but he journeyed in it to the garrison where the Jews happened to be then
shut up, and where Timotheus lay round the place with his army. And Judas
came upon the city in the morning; and when he found that the enemy were
making an assault upon the walls, and that some of them brought ladders,
on which they might get upon those walls, and that others brought engines
[to batter them], he bid the trumpeter to sound his trumpet, and he encouraged
his soldiers cheerfully to undergo dangers for the sake of their brethren
and kindred; he also parted his army into three bodies, and fell upon the
backs of their enemies. But when Timotheus's men perceived that it was
Maccabeus that was upon them, of both whose courage and good success in
war they had formerly had sufficient experience, they were put to flight;
but Judas followed them with his army, and slew about eight thousand of
them. He then turned aside to a city of the foreigners called Malle, and
took it, and slew all the males, and burnt the city itself. He then removed
from thence, and overthrew Casphom and Bosor, and many other cities of
the land of Gilead.
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