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1 Maccabees 16:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" His heart was lifted up, and he planned to make himself master of the country, and he made deceitful plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them. "

1 Maccabees 16:13

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11 Ptolemy the son of Abubus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold;

12 for he was the high priest’s son-in-law.

13 His heart was lifted up, and he planned to make himself master of the country, and he made deceitful plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them.

14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and attending to their needs. He went down to Jericho—himself with Mattathias and Judas his sons—in the one hundred seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat.

15 The son of Abubus received them deceitfully into the little stronghold that is called Dok, which he had built, and made them a great banquet, and hid men there.

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1 Maccabees 16:1

"John went up from Gazara and told Simon his father what Cendebaeus was doing."

1 Maccabees 16:2

"Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, “I and my brothers and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, so that we have often delivered Israel."

1 Maccabees 16:3

"But now I am old, and you moreover, by his mercy, are of a sufficient age. Take the place of me and my brother, and go out and fight for our nation; and let the help which is from heaven be with you."

1 Maccabees 16:4

"He chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and cavalry, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin."

1 Maccabees 16:5

"Rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army of infantry and cavalry came to meet them. There was a brook between them."

1 Maccabees 16:6

"He encamped near them, he and his people. He saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first. When the men saw him, they passed over after him."

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