OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 5:46

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They came as far as Ephron, and this same city was large and very strong. It was on the road where they were going. They couldn’t turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but needed to pass through the middle of it.

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Verse 46. Ephron, beyond the Jordan. The situation is unknown. With regard to the right which Judas had to treat it with such severity, see Numbers 20:18. Judges 8:5. Calmet.—It probably belonged to God’s people, and was unjustly detained. Bible.

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