OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 5:23

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They took to them those who were in Galilee and in Arbatta, with their wives, their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness.

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Verse 23. Arbatis. Arboth means “deserts” uncultivated, here probably denoting the valley of Jezrahel. Simon wisely concentrated the people, as Judas did in Galaad. verse 45.

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