OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 12:29

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Setting out from there, they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is six hundred furlongs away from Jerusalem.

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Verse 29. Scythopolis. Formerly called Bethsan, ( Challoner.) near the lake of Tiberias.

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a furlong is about 201 meters or 220 yards, so 600 furlongs is about 121 km. or 75 miles

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