Judah’s Prayer for Victory

First Maccabees is a pro-Hasmonean account of the Maccabean wars and the circumstances leading up to them. The piety of Judah, the commander of the Judean revolt, is expressed in his prayers. He invokes the precedent of God’s support for David against the Philistines as justification for his plea that God now support Judah and his troops against the Syrian forces led by Lysias.

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First Maccabees is a pro-Hasmonean account of the Maccabean wars and the circumstances leading up to them. The piety of Judah, the commander of the Judean revolt, is expressed in his prayers. He invokes the precedent of God’s support for David against the Philistines as justification for his plea that God now support Judah and his troops against the Syrian forces led by Lysias.

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