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1 Maccabees 9:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" About a thousand men of Bacchides’ company fell that day; "

1 Maccabees 9:49

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47 So the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched out his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.

48 Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side. The enemy didn’t pass over the Jordan against them.

49 About a thousand men of Bacchides’ company fell that day;

50 and he returned to Jerusalem. They built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, Bethhoron, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.

51 He set garrisons in them to harass Israel.

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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."

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"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."

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

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

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"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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