OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 11:4

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But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and its pasture lands destroyed, and the bodies cast out, and those who had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.

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Verse 4. Way. This was done to irritate him against Jonathas, but he had now something else to do.

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