1 Maccabees 7:38-40

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁸Take vengeance on this man and on his army,
and let them fall by the sword;
remember their blasphemies,
and let them live no longer.’

The Death of Nicanor

³⁹Now Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Beth-horon, and the Syrian army joined him. ⁴⁰Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men. Then Judas prayed and said,

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