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1 Maccabees 11:61-63
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 11:61-63
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
61 From there he went to Gaza, but the people of Gaza shut him out. So he besieged it and burned its suburbs with fire and plundered them.(A) 62 Then the people of Gaza pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them and took the sons of their rulers as hostages and sent them to Jerusalem. And he passed through the country as far as Damascus.(B)
63 Then Jonathan heard that the officers of Demetrius had come to Kadesh in Galilee with a large army, intending to remove him from office.(C)
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