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1 Machabees 9:70-73 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

70. And Jonathan had knowledge of it, and he sent ambassadors to him to make peace with him, and to restore to him the prisoners.

71. And he accepted it willingly, and did according to his words, and swore that the would do him no harm all the days of his life.

72. And he restored to him the prisoners which he before had taken out of the land of Juda: and he returned and went away into his own country, and he came no more into their borders.

73. So the sword ceased from Israel: and Jonathan dwelt in Machmas, and Jonathan began there to judge the people, and he destroyed the wicked out of Israel.

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