1 Maccabees 12:27
“Wherefore so soone as the Sunne was downe, Ionathan commaunded his men to watch, and to be in armes, that all the night long they might bee ready to fight: Also he sent foorth sentinels round about the hoste.”
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1 Maccabees 12:27 Context
25Hee remooued from Ierusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gaue them no respite to enter his countrey. 26He sent spies also vnto their tents, who came againe, and tolde him, that they were appointed to come vpon them in the night season. 27Wherefore so soone as the Sunne was downe, Ionathan commaunded his men to watch, and to be in armes, that all the night long they might bee ready to fight: Also he sent foorth sentinels round about the hoste. 28But when the aduersaries heard that Ionathan and his men were ready for battell, they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their campe. 29Howbeit Ionathan and his company knew it not till the morning: for they saw the lights burning.
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Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth centinels round about the host.
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