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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 8
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· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 8:10
A General Sent Against Greece
An Alliance with Rome · 1 Maccabees 8
Story guide: A departing column leads into battle, captive families, and dismantled defenses as the account describes Rome’s campaign against Greece.
Open this scene in the reader →10And when the report became known to them, they sent one general against them, and they fought against them, and many of them fell wounded, and they took their wives and their children captive, and plundered them, and gained control of their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them.
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