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Bacchides and royal infantry walk away from Jerusalem’s distant stone houses toward open country.
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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 7:19

    The Pit at Bethzaith

    Broken Oaths and the Fall of Nicanor · 1 Maccabees 7

    Story guide: Bacchides departs Jerusalem and establishes camp; guards seize men, whose abandoned garments beside a great pit mark their deaths.

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    19And Bacchides departed from Jerusalem and encamped at Bethzaith, and he sent and seized many of the men who had deserted to him, and some of the people, and slaughtered them in the great pit.

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