1 Maccabees 6:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵In Persia a messenger reached him with the news that the armies he had sent into Judea had been defeated. ⁶Lysias and his strong army had been forced to flee from the Jews, who were now reinforced by the additional weapons, supplies, and loot they had taken from the defeated armies. ⁷^(A)The Jews had pulled down the thing they called

The Awful Horror that Antiochus had built on the altar in Jerusalem. They had also surrounded the Temple with high walls, as it had been before, and had taken and fortified the town of Bethzur, one of the king's own towns.

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