“That Judas, returning with his army into the land of Judah, gathering the slackers, was exhorting the people along the whole way until they came into the land of Judah, teaches by his example the doctors of the holy Church what kind of care and how much diligence they ought to have toward their subjects, so that in th…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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53And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land of Judea.
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51Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.
52After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.
— 1 Maccabees 5:53 —
54So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.
55Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,