1 Maccabees 11:44

1 Maccabees 11:44 Context

⁴²So Demetrius sent vnto Ionathan, saying, I will not onely doe this for thee, and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy nation, if opportunitie serue. ⁴³Now therefore thou shalt do wel if thou send me men to helpe me; for all my forces are gone from me. ⁴⁴Upon this Ionathan sent him three thousand strong men vnto Antioch, and when they came to þ^e king, the king was very glad of their comming. ⁴⁵Howbeit, they that were of the citie, gathered themselues together into the midst of the citie, to the number of an hundreth and twentie thousand men, and would haue slaine the king. ⁴⁶Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the citie kept the passages of the citie, and began to fight.

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