1 Maccabees 5:49
“Wherefore Iudas commaunded a proclamation to be made throughout the hoste, that euery man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.”
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1 Maccabees 5:49 Context
47Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped vp the gates with stones. 48Whereupon Iudas sent vnto them in peaceable maner, saying; Let vs passe through your land to goe into our owne countrey, and none shall doe you any hurt, we will onely passe thorow on foote: howbeit they would not open vnto him. 49Wherefore Iudas commaunded a proclamation to be made throughout the hoste, that euery man should pitch his tent in the place where he was. 50So the souldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day, and all that night, till at the length the city was deliuered into his hands: 51Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and tooke the spoiles therof, and passed through the city ouer them that were slaine.
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Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.
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