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1 Maccabees 6:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 6:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;(A) 6 that Lysias had gone first with a strong force but had turned and fled before the Jews;[a] that the Jews[b] had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils that they had taken from the armies they had cut down;(B) 7 that they had torn down the abomination that he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his town.(C)
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