1 Maccabees 1:17
“Wherefore he entred into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great nauie,”
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1 Maccabees 1:17 Context
15And made themselues, vncircumcised, and forsooke the holy couenant, and ioyned themselues to the heathen, and were sold to doe mischiefe. 16Now when the kingdome was established, before Antiochus, hee thought to reigne ouer Egypt, that he might haue þe dominion of two realms: 17Wherefore he entred into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great nauie, 18And made warre against Ptolomee king of Egypt, but Ptolomee was afraide of him, and fled: and many were wounded to death. 19Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt, and hee tooke the spoiles thereof.
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