1 Maccabees 7:39
“So Nicanor went out of Ierusalem, & pitched his tents in Bethoron, where an hoste out of Syria met him.”
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1 Maccabees 7:39 Context
37Thou O Lord didst choose this house, to be called by thy Name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people. 38Be auenged of this man and his hoste, and let them fall by the sword: Remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer. 39So Nicanor went out of Ierusalem, & pitched his tents in Bethoron, where an hoste out of Syria met him. 40But Iudas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying, 41O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine Angel went out, and smote a hundred, fourescore, and fiue thousand of them.
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So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.
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