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1 Maccabees 6:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
1 Maccabees 6:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 that Lysias had gone at first with a strong army and been driven back; that the people of Judah had grown strong by reason of the arms, wealth, and abundant spoils taken from the armies they had cut down; 7 that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur.(A)
8 When the king heard this news, he was astonished and very much shaken. Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
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