1 Maccabees 5:45-47
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Return to Jerusalem. 45 (A)Then Judas assembled all the Israelites, great and small, who were in Gilead, with their wives and children and their goods, a very large company, to go into the land of Judah. 46 When they reached Ephron,[a] a large and strongly fortified city along the way, they found it impossible to go around it on either the right or the left; they would have to march right through it.(B) 47 But the people in the city shut them out and blocked up the gates with stones.
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