1 Maccabees 6:19
Good News Translation
So Judas decided to get rid of them and called all the people together to besiege the fort.

New Revised Standard Version
Judas therefore resolved to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.

Contemporary English Version
Judas decided to attack the fortress and get rid of those troublemakers.

New American Bible
And so Judas planned to destroy them, and assembled the people to besiege them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.

1 Maccabees 6:17
And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he called his name Eupator.

1 Maccabees 6:18
Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.

1 Maccabees 6:20
And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

1 Maccabees 6:21
And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them.

Context
1 Maccabees 6
18Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles. 19And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them. 20And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 6:17
And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he called his name Eupator.

1 Maccabees 6:18
Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.

1 Maccabees 6:20
And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

1 Maccabees 6:21
And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them.



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