OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 5:8

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and took possession of Jazer and its villages, and returned again into Judea.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 8. Gazer, in Ephraim. But Jazer, in the tribe of Gad, seems to be meant, as the Greek expresses it. Menochius.—Towns. Lit. “daughters,” or dependant ( Bible.) villages. Worthington.—Afterwards Judas returned and defeated Timotheus. 2 B. 10:24.

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Greek daughters. Compare Numbers 21:25.

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