<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Interestingly, the Chassidim are described very differently in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">next verse:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    [42] Then they were joined by a group of Hasideans, mighty warriors</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    of Israel, all of them devoted to the law.  >></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">However, later on when the Syrian-Greek king offered to give the Jews internal autonomy they withdrew from the fight stating that they were only fighting for religious freedom and not polotical freedom. However, Jonathan continued the fight realizing that this was all a ruse which in fact it was<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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