1 Maccabees 5:57
Good News Translation
They said to one another, "Let's go to war with the Gentiles around us and win some fame for ourselves."

New Revised Standard Version
So they said, “Let us also make a name for ourselves; let us go and make war on the Gentiles around us.”

Contemporary English Version
And they said, "Let's attack the Gentiles around here and make ourselves famous!"

New American Bible
They said, “Let us also make a name for ourselves by going out and fighting against the Gentiles around us.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight against the Gentiles that are round about us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight against the Gentiles that are round about us.

1 Maccabees 5:55
Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais,

1 Maccabees 5:56
Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the soldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought,

1 Maccabees 5:58
And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went towards Jamnia.

1 Maccabees 5:59
And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them battle.

Context
1 Maccabees 5
56Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the soldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought, 57And he said: Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight against the Gentiles that are round about us. 58And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went towards Jamnia.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 5:55
Now in the days that Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee, before Ptolemais,

1 Maccabees 5:56
Joseph, the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captain of the soldiers, heard of the good success, and the battles that were fought,

1 Maccabees 5:58
And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went towards Jamnia.

1 Maccabees 5:59
And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them battle.



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1 Maccabees 5:56
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