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1 Maccabees 5:14-16
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 While the letter was still in the process of being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, arrived from Galilee with a similar message, 15 reporting that the people of Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon[a] had united with the whole of Galilee of the Gentiles to destroy them. 16 When Judas and the people heard these reports, they convened a great assembly to determine what they should do for their beleaguered kindred who were under attack by their enemies.
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- 1 Maccabees 5:15 Ptolemais, Tyre, and Sidon: three cities of the Phoenician coast, very famous in antiquity (Ptolemais, thus called by Ptolemy II in 261 B.C., was first known by the name Acco). Anti-Jewish hatred spreads in Palestine and especially in Galilee, which was inhabited from the most ancient times by a mixture of pagan populations (see 1 Ki 9:11); few Jews lived in Galilee of the Gentiles (Isa 9:1; Mt 4:15).
