1 Maccabees 5:65-67

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Success at Hebron and Philistia

⁶⁵ Then Judas and his brothers went out and fought the descendants of Esau in the land to the south. He struck Hebron and its villages and tore down its strongholds and burned its towers on all sides.^{(A) 66} Then he marched off to go into the land of the Philistines^[a] and passed through Marisa.^{[b](B) 67} On that day some priests who wished to do a brave deed fell in battle, for they went out to battle unwisely.