1 Maccabees 3:40
“So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plaine countrey.”
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1 Maccabees 3:40 Context
38Then Lysias chose Ptoleme, the son of Dorymenes and Nicanor, & Gorgias, mighty men of the kings friends: 39And with them hee sent fourtie thousand footmen, and seuen thousand horsemen to goe into the land of Iuda, and to destroy it as the king cōmanded. 40So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plaine countrey. 41And the merchants of the countrey, hearing the fame of them, tooke siluer, & gold very much, with seruants, and came into the campe to buy the children of Israel for slaues; A power also of Syria, and of the land of the Philistines, ioyned themselues vnto them. 42Now when Iudas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, & that the forces did encampe themselues in their borders, (for they knewe how the king had giuen commaundement to destroy the people, and vtterly abolish them.)
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So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.
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