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This is a passage from **1 Maccabees**, a deuterocanonical/apocryphal book of the Hebrew Bible included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons, presented here in parallel columns of an English translation (likely the King James Apocrypha) and the ancient Greek Septuagint text. The passage covers chapter 7, narrating the ascension of the Seleucid king Demetrius I, his appointment of the corrupt would-be high priest Alcimus, and two successive military campaigns against the Jewish resistance leader Judas Maccabaeus. The narrative culminates in the Battle of Adasa (161 BCE), where Judas defeats and kills the general Nicanor — an enemy who had blasphemed the Temple — and the establishment of "Nicanor's Day" as an annual Jewish festival. The text's distinctive perspective is strongly pro-Maccabean and theologically providential: enemy victories through treachery are contrasted with Judas's divinely-aided military successes, and Nicanor's blasphemy against the Temple is presented as the direct cause of his destruction. Readers interested in Second Temple Jewish history, the Maccabean revolt, or the textual tradition of the Septuagint will find this a primary source narrative combining military chronicle with religious polemic.

Polyglot Bible: 1 Macabees: 1 Macabees 7

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