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1 Maccabees 9:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Maccabees 9:3

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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Joshua 4:19

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"The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho."

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1 Maccabees 6:26

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"Behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem to take it. They have fortified the sanctuary and Bethsura."

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Numbers 33:49

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"They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab."

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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 6:48

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"But the soldiers of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped toward Judea and toward mount Zion."

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2 Samuel 24:5

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"They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;"

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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 9:4

"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."

1 Maccabees 9:7

"Judas saw that his army slipped away and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was very troubled in spirit, because he had no time to gather them together, and he became faint."

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