1 Maccabees 9:59

1 Maccabees 9:59 Context

⁵⁷Now when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to the king, wherupon the land of Iudea was in rest two yeere. ⁵⁸Then all the vngodly men held a counsell, saying, Behold, Ionathan and his companie are at ease, and dwell without care: now therefore wee will bring Bacchides hither, who shall take them all in one night. ⁵⁹So they went, and consulted with him. ⁶⁰Then remoued he, and came with a great hoste, and sent letters priuily to his adherents in Iudea, that they should take Ionathan, and those that were with him: Howbeit they could not, because their counsell was knowen vnto them. ⁶¹Wherefore they tooke of the men of the countrey that were authours of that mischiefe, about fiftie persons, and slew them.

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