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1 Maccabees 5:13-15
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 All of our kindred who dwelt among the Tobiads have been killed, and the Gentiles have carried off their wives and children, confiscated their property, and slain about a thousand people there.”
14 While the letter was still in the process of being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, arrived from Galilee with a similar message, 15 reporting that the people of Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon[a] had united with the whole of Galilee of the Gentiles to destroy them.
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- 1 Maccabees 5:15 Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon: three cities of the Phoenician coast, very famous in antiquity (Ptolemais, thus called by Ptolemy II in 261 B.C., was first known by the name Acco). Anti-Jewish hatred spreads in Palestine and especially in Galilee, which was inhabited from the most ancient times by a mixture of pagan populations (see 1 Ki 9:11); few Jews lived in Galilee of the Gentiles (Isa 9:1; Mt 4:15).
