1 Maccabees 5:59

1 Maccabees 5:59 Context

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. ⁶⁰And so it was, that Ioseph and Azarias were put to flight, and pursued vnto the borders of Iudea, and there were slaine that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men. ⁶¹Thus was there a great ouerthrow among the children of Israel, because they were not obedient vnto Iudas, and his brethren, but thought to doe some valiant act.

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