OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 9:4

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Then they marched away and went to Berea with twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry.

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Verse 4. Berea, or Beroth, in Benjamin, not far from Laisa, or Lesen, (Joshua 18:25) where Judas was encamped, ( Calmet.) with 3000 (Gorion); Josephus says 1000; Rufin translates 2000.

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