Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

1 Machabees 5:62-67 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

62. But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was brought to Israel.

63. And the men of Juda were magnified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the nations where their name was heard.

64. And people assembled to them with joyful acclamations.

65. Then Judas and his brethren went forth and attacked the children of Esau, in the land toward the south, and he took Chebron, and her towns: and he burnt the walls thereof and the towers all round it.

66. And he removed his camp to go into the land of the aliens, and he went through Samaria.

67. In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.