1 Maccabees 10:71
Good News Translation
If you really have any confidence in your army, come down here on the plain and fight, where we can test each other's strength. Study the situation, and you will find that I have the support of the forces from the cities.

New Revised Standard Version
If you now have confidence in your forces, come down to the plain to meet us, and let us match strength with each other there, for I have with me the power of the cities.

Contemporary English Version
If you're so proud of your army, come down out of the hills and fight. You will find out that the people in the towns are on our side.

New American Bible
If you have confidence in your forces, come down now to us in the plain, and let us test each other’s strength there; for the forces of the cities are on my side.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

1 Maccabees 10:69
And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,

1 Maccabees 10:70
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

1 Maccabees 10:72
Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

1 Maccabees 10:73
And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?

Context
1 Maccabees 10
70Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains. 71Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war. 72Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 10:69
And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,

1 Maccabees 10:70
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

1 Maccabees 10:72
Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

1 Maccabees 10:73
And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?



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1 Maccabees 10:70
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