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1 Maccabees 13:43 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" In those days Simon encamped against Gazara, and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and captured it. "

1 Maccabees 13:43

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41 In the one hundred seventieth year, the yoke of the Gentiles was taken away from Israel.

42 The people began to write in their instruments and contracts, “In the first year of Simon, the great high priest and captain and leader of the Jews.”

43 In those days Simon encamped against Gazara, and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and captured it.

44 Those who were in the engine leaped out into the city; and there was a great uproar in the city.

45 The people of the city tore their clothes, and went up on the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, asking Simon to give them his right hand.

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1 Maccabees 13:1

"Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah and destroy it utterly."

1 Maccabees 13:2

"He saw that the people were trembling in great fear. So he went up to Jerusalem and gathered the people together."

1 Maccabees 13:3

"He encouraged them, and said to them, “You yourselves know all the things that I, my kindred, and my father’s house have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen."

1 Maccabees 13:4

"Because of this, all my brothers have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone."

1 Maccabees 13:5

"Now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction, for I am not better than my kindred."

1 Maccabees 13:6

"However, I will take vengeance for my nation, for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children, because all the Gentiles have gathered out of hatred to destroy us.”"

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