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1 Maccabees 5:63-65
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:63-65
New Catholic Bible
63 The Israelites’ Success over the Edomites and the Philistines. The valiant Judas and his brothers became greatly renowned throughout Israel and among all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard, 64 and crowds thronged around them to offer them praise. 65 Then Judas and his brothers went forth and attacked the descendants of Esau in the country toward the south. He conquered Hebron[a] and its villages, destroying its fortifications and burning down the towers encircling it.
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- 1 Maccabees 5:65 Hebron: the ancient city that David made the capital of his realm for seven years (2 Sam 2:11; 3:2; 5:5). Situated twenty miles south of Jerusalem, but always within the territory of the tribe of Judah, it subsequently fell into the hands of the Edomites.
