1 Maccabees 7:45

1 Maccabees 7:45 Context

⁴³So the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, the hostes ioyned battell, but Nicanors host was discomfited, & he himselfe was first slaine in the battell. ⁴⁴Now when Nicanors host saw that he was slaine, they cast away their weapons, and fled. ⁴⁵Then they pursued after them a dayes iourney from Adasa, vnto Gasera, sounding an alarme after them with their trumpets. ⁴⁶Whereupon they came forth out of all the townes of Iudea round about, and closed them in, so that they turning backe vpon them that pursued them, were all slaine with the sword, and not one of them was left. ⁴⁷Afterwards they tooke þ^e spoiles, and the pray, and smote off Nicanors head, & his right hand, which he stretched out so proudly, and brought them away; and hanged them vp, towards Ierusalem.

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