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1 Maccabees 5:66

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66

He marched to go into the land of the Philistines, and he went through Samaria.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 66. Aliens; Philistines, verse 68.—Samaria. This seems too remote. Some substitute Saraia; (Joshua 15:35) others Maresa, (2 B. 12:35.) Marissa, (Jos.) the same as Ressa. Numbers 33:21.

EXPLANATION

Greek foreigners.

EXPLANATION

Or, Marisa See Josephus, Antiquities 12:8. 6, and 2 Maccabees 12:35.

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