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1 Maccabees 15:36-38
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 15:36-38
New Catholic Bible
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. 38 Then the king appointed Cendebeus as commander-in-chief of the coastal region and gave him infantry and cavalry forces.
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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.
