1 Maccabees 5:1
Good News Translation
When the neighboring nations heard that the Jews had built the altar and restored the Temple as it had been before, they were so furious

New Revised Standard Version
When the Gentiles all around heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary dedicated as it was before, they became very angry,

Contemporary English Version
When the neighboring nations heard that the altar and the temple were again ready to be used in worship, they became furious

New American Bible
When the nations round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored as before, they were enraged.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry.

1 Maccabees 4:60
They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before.

1 Maccabees 4:61
And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it, to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Maccabees 5:2
And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

1 Maccabees 5:3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.

Context
1 Maccabees 5
1Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry. 2And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 4:60
They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before.

1 Maccabees 4:61
And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it, to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Maccabees 5:2
And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

1 Maccabees 5:3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.



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1 Maccabees 4:61
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