1 Maccabees 3:46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then they gathered together and went to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because Israel formerly had a place of prayer in Mizpah.

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Then they assembled and went to Mizpah, across from Jerusalem, because Israelites used to have a place of prayer there.

And they gathered together and came to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem. For a place of prayer was in Mizpah, in the former Israel.

And they assembled together, and came to Maspha over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel.

Then Judas and his men assembled and marched to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because the people of Israel had previously had a place of worship there.

They gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh there used to be a place of prayer for Israel.

Judas led his army a short distance from Jerusalem to the town of Mizpah, which had been a place of worship.