The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between the Maccabees led by Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and a Seleucid Greek army led by Regent Lysias in October...
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of the West Bank. Beth Zur is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus. The Battle of Beth-Zur...
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The Battle of Beth Zechariah took place around May 162 BC during the Maccabean revolt fought between Jewish rebels under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus...
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Lysias (Syrian chancellor) (category Year of birth unknown)
Maccabees fought at the Battle of Beth Zur but it ended either inconclusively or with a minor Maccabee victory. However, news of Antiochus IV's death in...
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Seleucids did indeed successfully occupy Beth-Zur, rather than the account here. The series of battles around Beth-Zur, the attack on Judas's forces, and a...
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Maccabean Revolt (redirect from Revolt of the Maccabees)
of the revolt, 10,000 men at the Battle of Beth Zur, and possibly as many as 22,000 soldiers by the time of the defeat at Elasa. In several battles,...
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him, the Senate can influence events in the Seleucid kingdom. The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and...
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2 Maccabees (redirect from Second Book of Maccabees)
Timothy of Ammon and others. (~163 BC) Chapter 11: Lysias leads a military expedition to Judea. Judas defeats him at the Battle of Beth Zur. Four documents...
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version of the Battle of Beth Zur where an angel armed with a golden weapon helped send the Seleucid army to flight. Thrones guard the gate of the holy of holies...
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200 BC, Battle of Panium 197 BC, Battle of Cynoscephalae 190 BC, Battle of Magnesia 167-160 BC, Revolt of the Maccabees 164 BC, Battle of Beth-zur 153 BC...
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