Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 11:65
A church father on this verse
“What is signified by Bethsura, if not the reading of the Holy Scriptures? For Bethsura is interpreted as "house of the strong," and the sacred Scripture can rightly be called the house of the strong, because there those who are strong and most heroic always dwell by speaking and acting well, they who, together with th…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
65Then Simon encamped against Beth-zur, and fought against it a long season, and shut it up:
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63Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Kadesh, which is in Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him out of the country,
64he went to meet them, and left Simon his brother in the country.
— 1 Maccabees 11:65 —
66but they desired to have peace with him, which he granted them, and then put them out from thence, and took the city, and set a garrison in it.
67As for Jonathan and his host, they pitched at the water of Gennesaret, from whence betimes in the morning they got them to the plain of Hazor.