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1 Maccabees 15:8-10
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 15:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 All debts you now owe to the royal treasury and any such future debts shall be canceled from this time forward forever. 9 When we again gain control of our kingdom, we shall bestow the highest possible honors on you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will be manifest to the entire world.”
10 Antiochus VII Besieges Trypho at Dor.[a]In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus invaded the land of his ancestors, and all the troops rallied to him, leaving Trypho with only a few supporters.
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- 1 Maccabees 15:10 We are in 138 B.C. Dor is a fortified port city on the Mediterranean in the vicinity of Mount Carmel. It lost its importance when Herod the Great built the city of Caesarea eight miles to its south.
