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1 Maccabees 3:38-40
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 3:38-40
New Catholic Bible
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor[a] and Gorgias, powerful men among the Friends of the King, 39 and under their command he sent forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to invade the land of Judah and destroy it in compliance with the king’s orders. 40 Setting out with all their forces, they reached the plain in the region of Emmaus,[b] where they pitched camp.
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- 1 Maccabees 3:38 Nicanor was the leader of another expedition against the Jews four years later and was ultimately slain by Judas (see 1 Mac 7:26-46).
- 1 Maccabees 3:40 Emmaus: this was not the Emmaus of Lk 24:13, but a town about twenty-five miles west of Jerusalem, which dominated the ways of access to it.
