OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 12:32

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But after the feast called Pentecost, they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea.

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Verse 32. Gorgias, who had been twice defeated. Calmet. 10:14. and 1 B. 4:1. Worthington.—Idumea. Grotius would read Jamnia. But he might govern the southern parts of Juda, ( Calmet.) then occupied by the Idumeans. Bible.

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