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Liberation of the Holy City and the Temple

Chapter 8

Judas Maccabeus Conducts Guerrilla Warfare. Meanwhile, Judas, who was also called Maccabeus, secretly entered the villages with his companions and enlisted in their ranks their kindred as well as others who had remained faithful to Judaism.[a] Having assembled a force of about six thousand,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Maccabees 8:1 The narrative interrupted in 2 Mac 5:27 is taken up again here (see 1 Mac 1:26-64).