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1 Maccabees 9:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The battle became desperate, and many on both sides fell wounded to death. "

1 Maccabees 9:17

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15 and the right wing was defeated by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus.

16 Those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was defeated, and they turned and followed in the footsteps of Judas and of those who were with him.

17 The battle became desperate, and many on both sides fell wounded to death.

18 Judas fell, and the rest fled.

19 Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the tomb of his ancestors at Modin.

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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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