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1 Maccabees 5:1-3
Good News Translation
1 Maccabees 5:1-3
Good News Translation
Wars with Neighboring Nations(A)
5 When the neighboring nations heard that the Jews had built the altar and restored the Temple as it had been before, they were so furious 2 that they made up their minds to destroy all the Jews who were living among them. So they began to murder and kill our people.
3 The Idumeans were blockading the Israelites, so Judas went to war against them at Akrabattene, crushed them, and looted them.
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