International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
BETH-ZACHARIASbeth-zak-a-ri'-as (Baith-zacharia): Here Judas Maccabeus failed in battle with Antiochus Eupator, and his brother Eleazar fell in conflict with an elephant (1 Maccabees 6:32; the King James Version "Bathzacharias"). It was a position of great strength, crowning a promontory which juts out between two deep valleys. It still bears the ancient name with little change, Beit Zakaria. It lies about 4 miles Southwest of Bethlehem (BR, III, 283; Ant, XII, ix, 4).
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... 1Macc 6:19). Judas was repulsed at Bethzacharias and after a severe struggle
Bethsura was captured (APC 1Macc 6:31-50). The Jewish ...
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Beth-zacharias
Beth-zacharias. Bethzacharias, Beth-zacharias. Beth-zatha . Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia ... Bethzacharias, Beth-zacharias. Beth-zatha . Reference Bible
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Bethulia
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Asmoneans
... The odds were too strong for Judas, his band was frightened by the Syrian war-elephants
and in the battle of Bethzacharias the Maccabees were defeated and ...
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Maccabaeus
... In the battle of Bethzacharias (163 BC), in which the Jews for the first time met
elephants in war, he stabbed from below the elephants on which he supposed ...
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Maccabees
... In the battle of Bethzacharias (163 BC), in which the Jews for the first time met
elephants in war, he stabbed from below the elephants on which he supposed ...
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