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1 Maccabees 8:3-5
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 and what they had done in the province of Spain, seizing the silver and gold mines there 4 and by their planning and persistence gaining control of the entire country even though it was considerably distant from their own. They also had subdued kings who had come against them from the ends of the earth,[a] crushing them and inflicting heavy losses on them, while the rest paid tribute to them every year.
5 Philip[b] and Perseus, the king of the Macedonians, and the others who had engaged in battle against them had been crushed by them and subjugated.
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- 1 Maccabees 8:4 Against them from the ends of the earth (that is, from the Straits of Gibraltar) had come Hannibal and then his brother Hasdrubal, Carthaginian leaders, in the Second Punic War: the latter was stopped and slain at Metaurus while the former, after clamorous initial successes, was beaten at Zama.
- 1 Maccabees 8:5 Philip V and Perseus were the last two kings of Macedonia, defeated respectively at Cynoscephalae in 197 B.C. and at Pydna in 168 B.C.
