OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 5:65

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Judas and his kindred went out and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south. He struck Hebron and its villages, pulled down its strongholds, and burned its towers all around.

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Verse 65. Chebron, or Hebron, which the Idumeans had seized. Judas retook it after he had defeated Gorgias. 2 B. 12:32.

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Greek daughters. Compare Numbers 21:25.

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