1 Maccabees 5:20
“Now vnto Simon were giuen three thousand men to goe into Galilee, and vnto Iudas eight thousand men for the countrey of Galaad.”
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1 Maccabees 5:20 Context
18So hee left Ioseph the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias captaines of the people, with the remnant of the hoste in Iudea to keepe it, 19Unto whom he gaue commandement, saying, Take yee the charge of this people, and see that you make not warre against the heathen, vntill the time that we come againe. 20Now vnto Simon were giuen three thousand men to goe into Galilee, and vnto Iudas eight thousand men for the countrey of Galaad. 21Then went Simon into Galilee, where hee fought many battels with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him. 22And hee pursued them vnto the gate of Ptolemais; And there were slaine of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoiles he tooke.
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Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.
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