OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 7:47

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47

The Jews took the spoils and the booty, and they cut off Nicanor’s head and his right hand, which he had stretched out so arrogantly, and brought them, and hung them up beside Jerusalem.

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Verse 47. Jerusalem, and the temple, without the walls. His tongue was given to the birds. 2 B. 15:33. Calmet.

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