Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you. 1 Maccabees 16:1Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people. 1 Maccabees 16:2 And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. 1 Maccabees 16:4 Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin. 1 Maccabees 16:5 And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there was a running river between them. Context 1 Maccabees 16…2And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. 3And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you. 4Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 16:1 Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people. 1 Maccabees 16:2 And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. 1 Maccabees 16:4 Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin. 1 Maccabees 16:5 And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there was a running river between them. |
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