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But Jonathan removed out of Galilee, and from the waters which are
called Gennesar, for there he was before encamped, and came into the plain
that is called Asor, without knowing that the enemy was there. When therefore
Demetrius's men knew a day beforehand that Jonathan was coming against
them, they laid an ambush in the mountain, who were to assault him on the
sudden, while they themselves met him with an army in the plain; which
army, when Jonathan saw ready to engage him, he also got ready his own
soldiers for the battle as well as he was able; but those that were laid
in ambush by Demetrius's generals being behind them, the Jews were afraid
lest they should be caught in the midst between two bodies, and perish;
so they ran away in haste, and indeed all the rest left Jonathan; but a
few there were, in number about fifty, who staid with him, and with them
Mattathias, the son of Absalom, and Judas, the son of Chapseus, who were
commanders of the whole army. These marched boldly, and like men desperate,
against the enemy, and so pushed them, that by their courage they daunted
them, and with their weapons in their hands they put them to flight. And
when those soldiers of Jonathan that had retired saw the enemy giving way,
they got together after their flight, and pursued them with great violence;
and this did they as far as Cadesh, where the camp of the enemy lay.
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