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The companions watch royal troops ascending the distant pass.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 3

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 3:20

    The Threat Against Their Households

    A Small Force Before Great Armies · 1 Maccabees 3

    Story guide: The approaching royal army gives weight to Judas’s warning about their families and possessions.

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    20They are coming against us in a great mass of insolence and lawlessness, to wipe out us and our wives and our children, and to plunder us.

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