1 Maccabees 5:8-10

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⁸ He also took Jazer and its villages; then he returned to Judea.^(A)

Liberation of Galilean Jews

⁹ Now the nations in Gilead gathered together against the Israelites who lived in their territory and planned to destroy them. But they fled to the stronghold of Dathema^{(B) 10} and sent to Judas and his brothers letters that said, “The nations around us have gathered together to destroy us.