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1 Maccabees 9:43-45
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 9:43-45
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
43 When Bacchides heard of this, he came with a large force on the Sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan.(A) 44 And Jonathan said to those with him, “Let us get up now and fight for our lives, for today things are not as they were before.(B) 45 For look! The battle is in front of us and behind us; the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that, with marsh and thicket; there is no place to turn.(C)
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