1 Maccabees 6:44
“Put himselfe in ieopardie, to the end hee might deliuer his people, and get him a perpetuall name:”
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1 Maccabees 6:44 Context
42Then Iudas and his host drew neere, and entred into battell, and there were slaine of the kings army, sixe hundred men. 43¶ Eleazar also (syrnamed) Sauaran, perceiuing that one of the beasts, armed with royall harnesse, was higher then all the rest, and supposing that the king was vpon him, 44Put himselfe in ieopardie, to the end hee might deliuer his people, and get him a perpetuall name: 45Wherefore hee ranne vpon him courageously through the midst of the battell, slaying on the right hand, and on the left, so that they were diuided from him on both sides. 46Which done, he crept vnder the Elephant, and thrust him vnder and slew him: whereupon the Elephant fell downe vpon him, and there he died.
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Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his people, and get him a perpetual name:
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