They fell upon these wandering, bewildered, treasure-laden people and robbed them as readily and as joyously as a husbandman gathers olives in a fat year.
Oh, it was a merry time for the men of Simon and the men of John! But I in my wanderings over the city came upon a party of Bezethans, reluctant to surrender their goods for the asking, and they were fighting with right good will a body of Idumeans twice their number.
In fact they fought so well, so unanimously, so silently that I saw they lacked the essential part of the fight--the shouting.

That I supplied.

And when they had whipped the Idumeans and had a chance for flight before reinforcements came, they obeyed my voice in so far as they followed me into a subterranean chamber beneath a burned ruin on Zion.
"We were not followed and our hiding-place was not discovered.

In fact, their resistance was a complete success.

Whereupon, they were ready to unite and take Jerusalem! No--it was not strange! It is the nature of men.