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1 Maccabees 9:5-7
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 9:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Judas meanwhile had encamped at Elasa with three thousand picked men. 6 When his men saw the immense number of the enemy forces, they were greatly terrified, and many slipped away from the camp, until only eight hundred men remained.
7 When Judas realized that the battle was imminent and that his army was melting away, he became despondent, for he had no time to redeploy them.
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