OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 10:72

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72

Ask and learn who I am, and the rest who help us. They say, ‘Your foot can’t stand before our face; for your ancestors have been put to flight twice in their own land.’

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Verse 72. Twice. He alludes perhaps to the defeat of Azarias, and to that where Judas was slain. Calmet.—This captain had also twice thought proper to retreat. Calmet. 6:47. and 7:32. Bible.

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