OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 10:32

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32

Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of great strength, where Chaereas was in command.

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Verse 32. Gazara, different from Gaza, which is so called elsewhere. Menochius.—This Gazara was a fortress against the inroads of the Idumeans.—Chereas, brother of Timotheus. Calmet.

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See ver. 37.

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