1 Maccabees 12:25
“Hee remooued from Ierusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gaue them no respite to enter his countrey.”
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1 Maccabees 12:25 Context
23We doe write backe againe to you, that your cattell and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We doe command therefore [our Embassadours] to make report vnto you on this wise. 24Now when Ionathan heard that Demetrius princes were come to fight against him with a greater hoste then afore, 25Hee remooued from Ierusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gaue them no respite to enter his countrey. 26He sent spies also vnto their tents, who came againe, and tolde him, that they were appointed to come vpon them in the night season. 27Wherefore so soone as the Sunne was downe, Ionathan commaunded his men to watch, and to be in armes, that all the night long they might bee ready to fight: Also he sent foorth sentinels round about the hoste.
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He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.
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