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1 Maccabees 5:7-9
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 He engaged in many battles with them, and they were crushed and struck down. 8 After capturing Jazer[a] and its villages, he returned to Judea.
Judas Called Upon for Help. 9 The Gentiles in Gilead[b] banded together against the Israelites who were living in their territory, with the intention of destroying them. However, the Israelites fled to the stronghold of Dathema
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- 1 Maccabees 5:8 Jazer: a town west of Ammon and fifteen miles north of Heshbon (Num 32:3).
- 1 Maccabees 5:9 Gilead: a region of the Transjordan, north of the territory inhabited by the Ammonites (which corresponds to the land around the modern Ammon).