1 Maccabees 9:67
“And when he began to smite them, and came vp with his forces, Simon and his company went out of the citie, and burnt vp the engines of warre,”
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1 Maccabees 9:67 Context
65But Ionathan left his brother Simon in the citie, and went forth himselfe into the countrey, and with a certaine number went he forth. 66And he smote Odonarkes and his brethren, and the children of Phasiron in their tent. 67And when he began to smite them, and came vp with his forces, Simon and his company went out of the citie, and burnt vp the engines of warre, 68And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore. For his counsell and trauaile was in vaine. 69Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gaue him counsell to come into the countrey, insomuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to returne into his owne countrey.
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And when he began to smite them, and came up with his forces, Simon and his company went out of the city, and burned up the engines of war,
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