1 Maccabees 5:1-9
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1 Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
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2 Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
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3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
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4 Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
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5 He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
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6 Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.
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7 So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
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8 And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.
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9 Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.