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1 Maccabees 7:39 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Bethhoron, and there the Syrian army met him. "

1 Maccabees 7:39

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37 “You chose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people.

38 Take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword. Remember their blasphemies, and don’t allow them to live any longer.”

39 Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Bethhoron, and there the Syrian army met him.

40 Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men. Judas prayed and said,

41 “When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck among them one hundred eighty-five thousand.

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2 Maccabees 8:12

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"News came to Judas concerning Nicanor’s invasion. When he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army,"

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2 Maccabees 15:1

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"But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the region of Samaria, resolved to attack them with complete safety on the day of rest."

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1 Maccabees 6:32

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1 Maccabees 4:29

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Matthew 21:17

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"He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there."

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"He encamped between Geba and Scythopolis. He was there a whole month, that he might gather together all the baggage of his army."

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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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