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1 Maccabees 7:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All those who troubled their people joined him, and they took control of the land of Judah, and did great damage in Israel. "

1 Maccabees 7:22

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20 He placed Alcimus in charge of the country and left with him a force to aid him. Then Bacchides went away to the king.

21 Alcimus struggled to maintain his high priesthood.

22 All those who troubled their people joined him, and they took control of the land of Judah, and did great damage in Israel.

23 Judas saw all the wrongs that Alcimus and his company had done among the children of Israel, even more than the Gentiles.

24 He went out into all the borders of Judea and took vengeance on the men who had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going out into the country.

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1 Maccabees 7:1

"In the one hundred fifty first year, Demetrius the son of Seleucus came out of Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there."

1 Maccabees 7:2

"It came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him."

1 Maccabees 7:3

"The thing became known to him, and he said, “Don’t show me their faces!”"

1 Maccabees 7:4

"So the army killed them. Then Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom."

1 Maccabees 7:5

"All the lawless and ungodly men of Israel came to him. Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest."

1 Maccabees 7:6

"They accused the people to the king, saying, “Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land."

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