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Judas and his camp watch two intact stone towers across rocky ground.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 5

The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 5:5

    The Towers Besieged

    Rescue Across Galilee and Gilead · 1 Maccabees 5

    Story guide: The company watches the towers, then fire and cooled doorways mark their destruction and the lives lost inside.

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    5And they were shut up by him in the towers, and he encamped against them, and he devoted them to destruction, and he burned its towers with fire, along with all who were in them.

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