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Local defenders push the royal soldiers back outside the opened city gate as Antiochus turns away.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 6

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 6:4

    Flight from Elymais

    The King Dies and the Oath Is Broken · 1 Maccabees 6

    Story guide: Local defenders push the royal line back, and Antiochus leaves the intact city behind with two survivors.

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    4And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled and went away from there with great sorrow, to return to Babylon.

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