1 Maccabees 1:33
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33 Then they fortified the city of David with a large strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.(A)
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1 Maccabees 3:6
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6 Lawbreakers shrank back for fear of him;
all the evildoers were confounded;
and deliverance prospered by his hand.(A)
1 Maccabees 13:47
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47 So Simon reached an agreement with them and stopped fighting against them. But he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses in which the idols were located and then entered it with hymns and praise.(A)
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1 Maccabees 13:50
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50 Then they cried to Simon to make peace with them, and he did so. But he expelled them from there and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.(A)
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1 Maccabees 16:2
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2 And Simon called in his two eldest sons Judas and John and said to them: “My brothers and I and my father’s house have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times.(A)
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