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1 Maccabees 9:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 9:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Bacchides Returns to Judea
9 When Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army had fallen in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judah a second time, and with them the right wing of the army.(A) 2 They went by the road that leads to Gilgal and encamped against Mesaloth in Arbela, and they took it and killed many people. 3 In the first month of the one hundred fifty-second year they encamped against Jerusalem;
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