1 Maccabees 5:66
“Note, reader, that he now briefly recapitulates, by touching on them again, all those types of adversaries which he had mentioned before, that is, of the Jews, the Gentiles, and the heretics. For when a little earlier he related that the sons of Esau had been conquered, he immediately added that the camps of the forei…”
66From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
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64Insomuch as the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.
65Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.
— 1 Maccabees 5:66 —
67At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.
68So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the land of Judea.