1 Maccabees 5:2
“Wherfore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.”
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1 Maccabees 5:2 Context
1Now when the nations round about heard that the Altar was built, & the Sanctuarie renewed as before, it displeased them very much. 2Wherfore they thought to destroy the generation of Iacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people. 3Then Iudas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Israel: and hee gaue them a great ouerthrow, and abated their courage, and tooke their spoiles. 4Also he remembred the iniurie of the children of Bean, who had bene a snare and an offence vnto the people, in that they lay in waite for them in the wayes.
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Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
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