1 Maccabees 5:57
“Wherefore they said, Let vs also get vs a name, and goe fight against the heathen that are round about vs.”
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1 Maccabees 5:57 Context
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. 59Then came Gorgias and his men out of the citie to fight against them.
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Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.
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