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1 Machabees 12:22-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

22. And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity.

23. And we also have written back to you: That our cattle, and our possessions are yours: and yours, ours. We therefore have commanded that these things should be told you.

24. Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him.

25. So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country.

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