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1 Maccabees 5:8-10
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 After capturing Jazer[a] and its villages, he returned to Judea.
Judas Called Upon for Help. 9 The Gentiles in Gilead[b] banded together against the Israelites who were living in their territory, with the intention of destroying them. However, the Israelites fled to the stronghold of Dathema 10 and sent the following letter to Judas and his brothers: “The Gentiles around us have banded together to destroy us,
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- 1 Maccabees 5:8 Jazer: a town west of Ammon and fifteen miles north of Heshbon (Num 32:3).
- 1 Maccabees 5:9 Gilead: a region of the Transjordan, north of the territory inhabited by the Ammonites (which corresponds to the land around the modern Ammon).
