1 Maccabees 5:2DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 2 of 68
"And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them."
In context
1Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up as before, that they were exceeding angry.
2And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.
3Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites around about, and he made a great slaughter of them.
4And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in the way.