1 Maccabees 3:42
“Now 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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1 Maccabees 3:42 Context
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.) 43They said one to another, Let vs restore the decayed estate of our people, and let vs fight for our people and the Sanctuarie. 44Then was the Congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battell, and that they might pray, and aske mercy and compassion.
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Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;
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