1 Maccabees 6:31
“These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura which they assaulted many daies, making engines of warre: but they of Bethsura came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly.”
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1 Maccabees 6:31 Context
29There came also vnto him from other kingdomes, and from Isles of the Sea bands of hired souldiers. 30So that the number of his armie was an hundred thousand foote men, and twentie thousand horsemen, and two and thirty Elephants exercised in battell. 31These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura which they assaulted many daies, making engines of warre: but they [of Bethsura] came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly. 32Upon this Iudas remoued from the towre, and pitched in Bathzacharias, ouer against the kings campe. 33Then the king rising very earely marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battell, and sounded the trumpets.
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These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura, which they assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
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