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1 Maccabees 7:50 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" So the land of Judah had rest a few days. "
1 Maccabees 7:50
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48 The people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.
49 They ordained to keep this day year by year on the thirteenth day of Adar.
50 So the land of Judah had rest a few days.
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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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