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1 Maccabees 9:11 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The army marched out from the camp, and stood to encounter them. The cavalry was divided into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle. "

1 Maccabees 9:11

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9 They tried to dissuade him, saying, “There is no way we are able; but let’s rather save our lives now. Let’s return again with our kindred, and fight against them; but we are too few.”

10 Judas said, “Let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them. If our time has come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our honor.”

11 The army marched out from the camp, and stood to encounter them. The cavalry was divided into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.

12 Bacchides was in the right wing. The phalanx advanced on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.

13 The men by Judas’ side sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.

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1 Maccabees 9:1

"Demetrius heard that Nicanor had fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them."

1 Maccabees 9:2

"They went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and took possession of it, and killed many people."

1 Maccabees 9:3

"The first month of the one hundred fifty-second year, they encamped against Jerusalem."

1 Maccabees 9:4

"Then they marched away and went to Berea with twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry."

1 Maccabees 9:5

"Judas was encamped at Elasa with three thousand chosen men."

1 Maccabees 9:6

"They saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they were terrified. Many slipped away out of the army. There were not left of them more than eight hundred men."

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