1 Maccabees 5:56
“Ioseph the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias, captaines of the garisons, heard of the valiant actes and warlike deeds which they had done.”
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1 Maccabees 5:56 Context
54So they went vp to mount Sion with ioy and gladnesse, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slaine, vntill they had returned in peace. 55Now what time as Iudas and Ionathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, 56Ioseph the sonne of Zacharias, and Azarias, captaines of the garisons, heard of the valiant actes and warlike deeds which they had done. 57Wherefore they said, Let vs also get vs a name, and goe fight against the heathen that are round about vs. 58So when they had giuen charge vnto the garison that was with them, they went towards Iamnia.
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Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done.
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