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19 So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them. 20 They gathered together and besieged the citadel[a] in the one hundred and fiftieth year;[b] and he built siege towers and other engines of war. 21 But some of the garrison escaped from the siege and some of the ungodly Israelites joined them.

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  1. 1 Maccabees 6:20 Gk it
  2. 1 Maccabees 6:20 162 b.c.

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