1 Maccabees 3:26

1 Maccabees 3:26 Context

²⁴And they pursued them from the going downe of Bethoron, vnto the plaine, where were slaine about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fledde into the land of the Philistines. ²⁵Then began the feare of Iudas and his brethren, & an exceeding great dread to fall vpon the nations round about them: ²⁶In so much, as his fame came vnto the king, and all nations talked of the battels of Iudas. ²⁷Now when King Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore hee sent and gathered together all the forces of his realme [euen] a very strong armie. ²⁸He opened also his treasure, and gaue his souldiers pay for a yeere, commanding them to be ready, whensoeuer he should need them.

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