1 Maccabees 10:72
Good News Translation
You will learn who I am and who our allies are, and you will discover that you have no chance of standing against us. Your predecessors have already been beaten twice on their own ground;

New Revised Standard Version
Ask and learn who I am and who the others are that are helping us. People will tell you that you cannot stand before us, for your ancestors were twice put to flight in their own land.

Contemporary English Version
Just ask anyone, and they will tell you who I am and who my followers are. You don't stand a chance against us. Your own ancestors were defeated twice right here in their own land.

New American Bible
Inquire and find out who I am and who the others are who are helping me. People are saying that you cannot make a stand against us because your ancestors were twice put to flight in their own land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

1 Maccabees 10:70
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

1 Maccabees 10:71
Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

1 Maccabees 10:73
And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?

1 Maccabees 10:74
Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and Simon, his brother, met him to help him.

Context
1 Maccabees 10
71Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war. 72Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land: 73And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 10:70
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

1 Maccabees 10:71
Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

1 Maccabees 10:73
And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?

1 Maccabees 10:74
Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and Simon, his brother, met him to help him.



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1 Maccabees 10:71
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