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1 Maccabees 6:18-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Maccabees 6:18-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Renewed Attacks from Syria
18 Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles. 19 Judas therefore resolved to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them. 20 They gathered together and besieged the citadel[a] in the one hundred and fiftieth year;[b] and he built siege-towers and other engines of war.
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- 1 Maccabees 6:20 Gk it
- 1 Maccabees 6:20 162 bc
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