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Bacchides leads a long column of mailed royal infantry through dry Judean hills.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 7

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 7:10

    Peaceful Words and a Great Force

    Broken Oaths and the Fall of Nicanor · 1 Maccabees 7

    Story guide: Bacchides leads the royal column through the hills while two unarmed envoys approach a separate upland camp.

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    10And he departed and came into the land of Judah with a large force, and he sent messengers to Judas and to his brothers with peaceful words, but with deceit.

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