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1 Maccabees 4:27-29
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 4:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 When he heard the news, he was greatly disturbed and disappointed, because his plots against Israel had not turned out as he had intended and in accordance with the command of the king.
28 So the following year he mobilized sixty thousand picked infantry and five thousand cavalry to defeat them. 29 They marched into Idumea and encamped at Beth-zur.[a] Judas confronted them with ten thousand men,
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- 1 Maccabees 4:29 Beth-zur: ancient Canaanite city situated on an isolated height at the confines of Idumea about twenty miles south of Jerusalem on the road to Hebron. Fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chr 11:7), it had become in Maccabean times a key stronghold in the Judaic defense (see 1 Mac 4:61; 9:52; 11:65; 14:7-33; Jos 15:58).
