1 Maccabees 12:28
“But 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.”
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1 Maccabees 12:28 Context
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. 30Then Ionathan pursued after them, but ouertooke them not: for they were gone ouer the riuer Eleutherus.
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But when the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp.
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