OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 3:46

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They gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh there used to be a place of prayer for Israel.

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Verse 46. Maspha. Silo had been, and Jerusalem was afterwards, the place for public prayer. Worthington.—As the Jews could not go to Jerusalem, they performed their duty as well as they could at Maspha, where Israel had often met. Judges 20 and 21 and 1 Kennicott. 7:5 and 10:17.

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