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But when Ptolemy entered the towns he stationed forces as a garrison in each town.

When he[a] approached Azotus, they showed him the burnt-out temple of Dagon, and Azotus and its suburbs destroyed, and the corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those whom Jonathan[b] had burned in the war, for they had piled them in heaps along his route. They also told the king what Jonathan had done, to throw blame on him; but the king kept silent.

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  1. 1 Maccabees 11:4 Other ancient authorities read they
  2. 1 Maccabees 11:4 Gk he

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