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13 All our kindred who were in the territory of the Tobiads[a] have been killed; the Gentiles have captured their wives, their children and their goods, and they have slain there about a thousand men.”(A)

14 While they were reading this letter, suddenly other messengers, with garments torn, arrived from Galilee to deliver a similar message: 15 that “the inhabitants of Ptolemais,[b] Tyre, and Sidon, and the whole of Gentile Galilee have joined forces to destroy us.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:13 Tobiads: a prominent Jewish family that settled east of the Jordan.
  2. 5:15 Ptolemais: Hebrew Acco (Jgs 1:31), modern Acre, on the coast north of Haifa.