OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 9:34

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34

Bacchides found this out on the Sabbath day, and came—he and all his army—over the Jordan.

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Verse 34. Sabbath, out of contempt, like Nicanor; (2 B. 15) or thinking that the Jews would not then fight. Menochius.

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