1 Maccabees 5:14
“While these letters were yet reading, behold there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,”
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1 Maccabees 5:14 Context
12Come now therefore and deliuer vs from their handes, for many of vs are slaine. 13Yea all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie, are put to death, their wiues and their children; Also they haue caried away captiues, and borne away their stuffe, and they haue destroied there about a thousand men. 14While these letters were yet reading, behold there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise, 15And said: They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles are assembled together against vs to consume vs. 16Now when Iudas and the people heard these wordes, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should doe for their brethren, that were in trouble and assaulted of them.
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While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,
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