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1 Maccabees 8:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Judas heard how the Greeks planned to come and destroy them, "
1 Maccabees 8:9
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7 They took him alive, and decreed that both he and those who reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel of land from the best of their provinces:
8 the countries of India, Media, and Lydia. They took them from him, and gave them to King Eumenes.
9 Judas heard how the Greeks planned to come and destroy them,
10 but this became known to them, and they sent against them a general who fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day.
11 The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants;
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1 Maccabees 8:1
"Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all who join themselves to them, and make friends with all who come to them,"
1 Maccabees 8:2
"and that they are valiant men. They told him of their wars and exploits which they do among the Gauls, and how they conquered them, and forced them to pay tribute;"
1 Maccabees 8:3
"and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might take control of the silver and gold mines which were there;"
1 Maccabees 8:4
"and how by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings who came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had defeated them, and struck them severely; and how the rest give them tribute year by year."
1 Maccabees 8:5
"Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, they defeated in battle, and conquered them."
1 Maccabees 8:6
"Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, came against them to battle, having one hundred twenty elephants, with cavalry, chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was defeated by them."
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