1 Maccabees 11:21
“Then certaine vngodly persons who hated their owne people, went vnto the king, and told him that Ionathan besieged the towre.”
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1 Maccabees 11:21 Context
19By this meanes Demetrius reigned in the hundreth, threescore and seuenth yeere. 20At the same time Ionathan gathered together them that were in Iudea, to take the towre that was in Ierusalem, and he made many engines of warre against it. 21Then certaine vngodly persons who hated their owne people, went vnto the king, and told him that Ionathan besieged the towre. 22Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately remouing, he can to Ptolemais, and wrote vnto Ionathan, that he should not lay siege to the towre, but come and speake with him at Ptolemais in great haste. 23Neuerthelesse Ionathan when he heard this, commanded to besiege it [still] and he chose certaine of the Elders of Israel, and the priests, and put himselfe in perill.
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Then came ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went unto the king, and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower,
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