OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:3

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went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. The earth was quiet before him. He was exalted. His heart was lifted up.

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Verse 3. Earth, even to India, beyond which the ancients knew of nothing.—Quiet, or silent; depopulated, (Isaiah 14:7) and obedient. Habakkuk 2:20.

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