1 Maccabees 11:48
“Also they set fire on the citie, and gat many spoiles that day, and deliuered the king.”
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1 Maccabees 11:48 Context
46Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the citie kept the passages of the citie, and began to fight. 47Then the king called to the Iewes for helpe, who came vnto him all at once, and dispersing themselues through the city, slew that day in the citie to the number of an hundred thousand. 48Also they set fire on the citie, and gat many spoiles that day, and deliuered the king. 49So when they of the city saw, that the Iewes had got the city as they would, their courage was abated, wherefore they made supplication to the king, and cried, saying: 50Graunt vs peace, and let the Iewes cease from assaulting vs and the citie.
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Also they set fire on the city, and gat many spoils that day, and delivered the king.
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