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1 Maccabees 13:41-43
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 13:41-43
New Catholic Bible
41 Thus in the year one hundred and seventy, the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel, 42 and the people began to write in their documents and contracts: “In the first year of Simon, the great high priest, commander and leader of the Jews.”[a]
43 Simon Captures Gazara. About that time, Simon besieged Gazara[b] and surrounded it with troops. He constructed a siege-machine, and after he had brought it up to the town, he opened a breach in one of the towers and captured it.
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- 1 Maccabees 13:42 The title of king is avoided, since it was regarded as reserved to the Davidic descendancy; only forty years later, however, the title will be assumed (Alexander Jannaeus, 103–76 B.C.).
- 1 Maccabees 13:43 Gazara: a key position in the Shephelah, fortified by Bacchides in 160 B.C.; see 1 Mac 9:52; a Greek inscription hostile to Simon has been found there. Siege-machine: a tower on wheels housing men with catapults and battering rams that could breach fortified walls.
