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1 Maccabees 4:15-17
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 4:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 All those who were in the rear fell by the sword, and the rest were pursued as far as Gazara[a] and the plains of Judea, to Azotus and Jamnia, with about three thousand of them slain.
16 When Judas and his army broke off their pursuit, he said to the people: 17 “Do not be greedy for plunder, for we have yet another battle ahead of us.
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- 1 Maccabees 4:15 The pursuit took all directions: Gazara, or Gezer (Jos 21:21; 1 Ki 9:17), lay five miles northwest of Emmaus; Judea was to the far south; Azotus, or Ashdod, and Jamnia, were west and southwest.
