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1 Maccabees 5:15-17
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 reporting that the people of Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon[a] had united with the whole of Galilee of the Gentiles to destroy them. 16 When Judas and the people heard these reports, they convened a great assembly to determine what they should do for their beleaguered kindred who were under attack by their enemies.
17 Judas said to his brother Simon, “Choose as many troops as you need and go forth to rescue your kindred in Galilee, while my brother Jonathan and I will go to Gilead.”
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- 1 Maccabees 5:15 Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon: three cities of the Phoenician coast, very famous in antiquity (Ptolemais, thus called by Ptolemy II in 261 B.C., was first known by the name Acco). Anti-Jewish hatred spreads in Palestine and especially in Galilee, which was inhabited from the most ancient times by a mixture of pagan populations (see 1 Ki 9:11); few Jews lived in Galilee of the Gentiles (Isa 9:1; Mt 4:15).
