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Royal crews set up timber missile engines below the sanctuary’s defended walls.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 6

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 6:51

    Engines Against the Sanctuary

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

    Story guide: Royal crews build and operate wooden engines below Zion’s walls while a burning projectile arcs toward the defenses.

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    51And he encamped against the sanctuary for many days, and there he set up missile-launchers and engines and fire-throwers and stone-throwers and scorpions, to shoot arrows and slingstones.

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