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1 Maccabees 5:24-26
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:24-26
New Catholic Bible
24 Meanwhile, Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan crossed the Jordan and journeyed for three days through the desert. 25 There they encountered some Nabateans[a] who received them peacefully and reported to them everything that had happened to their kindred in Gilead: 26 “Many of them have been surrounded in Bozrah, in Bosor near Alema, in Chaspho, Maked, and Carnaim”—all of these towns were large and fortified—
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- 1 Maccabees 5:25 Nabateans: a people of Arabic or Aramaic origin established southwest of Palestine; they became rich and powerful as caravaners moving commerce from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and controlling all of the Transjordan as far as Damascus. It was a Nabatean governor from whom St. Paul escaped about A.D. 38 (2 Cor 11:32f).
