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1 Maccabees 9:31-33
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 9:31-33
New Catholic Bible
31 Thereupon Jonathan accepted the leadership in the place of his brother Judas.
32 Jonathan and Simon Retaliate. When Bacchides learned of this, he made plans to kill Jonathan, 33 but Jonathan and his brother Simon and all who were with him heard about it, and they took refuge in the wilderness of Tekoa,[a] where they encamped by the waters of the pool of Asphar.
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- 1 Maccabees 9:33 Tekoa was the home of the prophet Amos (Am 1:1) about five miles from Bethlehem.
