1 Maccabees 11:23
“Neuerthelesse Ionathan when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still and he chose certaine of the Elders of Israel, and the priests, and put himselfe in perill.”
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1 Maccabees 11:23 Context
21Then certaine vngodly persons who hated their owne people, went vnto the king, and told him that Ionathan besieged the towre. 22Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately remouing, he can to Ptolemais, and wrote vnto Ionathan, that he should not lay siege to the towre, but come and speake with him at Ptolemais in great haste. 23Neuerthelesse Ionathan when he heard this, commanded to besiege it [still] and he chose certaine of the Elders of Israel, and the priests, and put himselfe in perill. 24And tooke siluer and gold, and rayment, and diuers presents besides, and went to Ptolemais, vnto the king, where he found fauour in his sight. 25And though certaine vngodly men of the people, had made complaints against him,
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Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in peril;
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