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1 Maccabees 3:36-38
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 3:36-38
New Catholic Bible
36 Furthermore, he was to settle foreigners throughout the territory and to distribute their land by lot.
37 The king then took the remaining half of his forces and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven. He crossed the Euphrates River and advanced through the upper provinces.
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor[a] and Gorgias, powerful men among the Friends of the King,
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- 1 Maccabees 3:38 Nicanor was the leader of another expedition against the Jews four years later and was ultimately slain by Judas (see 1 Mac 7:26-46).
