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1 Maccabees 15:35-37
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 15:35-37
New Catholic Bible
35 As regards Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, these towns were causing great damage among our people and in our land. However, we are willing to pay you one hundred talents for these cities.”
36 Athenobius offered no response, but he returned to the king filled with wrath. When he reported to him what Simon had said and described the splendor of Simon and of everything he had seen, the king was enraged.
37 The Syrian Army Invades Judea.[a] Meanwhile Trypho boarded a ship and escaped to Orthosia.
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- 1 Maccabees 15:37 Upon Trypho’s death, the king concerns himself with imposing his power. In 138 B.C., the war breaks out anew. Orthosia: a port between Tripoli and the Eleutherus River.
