OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 7:32

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About five hundred men of Nicanor’s army fell, and the rest fled into the city of David.

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Verse 32. Thousand. Some Greek copies have “hundred.” Others think that these were Jews: but the contrary seems to be the case, though Judas was again (Calmet. 6:47) forced to retreat to the temple, which he left shortly after. 2 B. 14:31.

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