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1 Maccabees 9:67 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. Then Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set the engines of war on fire, "

1 Maccabees 9:67

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65 Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went out into the country, and he went with a few men.

66 He struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tents.

67 They began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. Then Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set the engines of war on fire,

68 and fought against Bacchides, and he was defeated by them. They afflicted him severely; for his counsel and expedition was in vain.

69 They were very angry with the lawless men who gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. Then he decided to depart into his own land.

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

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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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