1 Maccabees 11:66
Good News Translation
The people asked for peace terms, and Simon agreed. He then took over the town, drove the people out, and stationed a detachment of troops there.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace, and he did so. He removed them from there, took possession of the town, and set a garrison over it.

Contemporary English Version
before it surrendered to him. He took command of Beth-Zur and told its people to leave. Then he stationed his own troops there.

New American Bible
They appealed to him, and he granted them terms of peace. He expelled them from the city, took possession of it, and put a garrison there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it.

1 Maccabees 11:64
And he went against them: but left his brother, Simon, in the country.

1 Maccabees 11:65
And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days, and shut them up.

1 Maccabees 11:67
And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.

1 Maccabees 11:68
And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against them.

Context
1 Maccabees 11
65And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days, and shut them up. 66And they desired him to make peace, and he granted it them: and he cast them out from thence, and took the city, and placed a garrison in it. 67And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 11:64
And he went against them: but left his brother, Simon, in the country.

1 Maccabees 11:65
And Simon encamped against Bethsura, and assaulted it many days, and shut them up.

1 Maccabees 11:67
And Jonathan and his army encamped by the water of Genesar, and before it was light they were ready in the plain of Asor.

1 Maccabees 11:68
And behold the army of the strangers met him in the plain, and they laid an ambush for him in the mountains: but he went out against them.



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