Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees

LibriVox recording of Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees by King James Version (KJV). Read in English by ancientchristian. The First Book of the Machabees is a history of the struggle of the Jewish people for religious and political liberty under the leadership of the Machabee family, with Judas Machabeus as the central figure. After a brief introduction (i, 1-9) explaining how the Jews came to pass from the Persian domination to that of the Seleucids, it relates the causes of the rising under Mathathias and the details of the revolt up to his death (i, 10-ii); the glorious deeds