Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 5:53
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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 razed 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 Beth-shan.
— 1 Maccabees 5:53 —
54So they went up to Mount Zion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them was slain until they had returned in peace.
55Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,