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1 Maccabees 9:44 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Jonathan said to his company, “Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for things are different today than they were yesterday and the day before. "

1 Maccabees 9:44

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42 They avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marshes of the Jordan.

43 Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan with a great army.

44 Jonathan said to his company, “Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for things are different today than they were yesterday and the day before.

45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us. Moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and thicket. There is no place to escape.

46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.”

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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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