“What does it mean that Jonathan pitched his camp by the water of Gennesar, except that the company of holy preachers, inflamed by the Spirit of God, prepares to oppose worldly waves in the persecutions of the faithful? They say that the lake of Gennesareth is the same as the Sea of Galilee. But the Sea of Tiberias tak…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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67As for Jonathan and his host, they pitched at the water of Gennesar, from whence betimes in the morning they gat them to the plain of Nasor.
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65Then Simon encamped against Bethsura and fought against it a long season, and shut it up:
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.
— 1 Maccabees 11:67 —
68And, behold, the host of strangers met them in the plain, who, having laid men in ambush for him in the mountains, came themselves over against him.
69So when they that lay in ambush rose out of their places and joined battle, all that were of Jonathan’s side fled;