OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 9:2

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They went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and took possession of it, and killed many people.

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Verse 2. Galgal … in Arbella, or the Galilee, in the flat country, Araboth. Calmet. 5:23.—Masaloth, or Masal, was in the tribe of Asher. Jos. xvi. 30.—S. Jerom speaks of Arbela, nine miles from Legion. See Osee 10:14.

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