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GORGIAS

(Gk. Gorgias)

A Seleucid general whose exploits against the Jewish rebels are documented in 1 Macc. 3:38; 2 Macc. 8:9. He was one of the generals commissioned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes to quell the Jewish revolt throughout Judea. In battle against the numerically inferior Jewish rebels near Emmaus, Gorgias was strategically outmaneuvered and defeated by Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc. 4:1-24). As military governor of Idumea, he successfully repelled the unsanctioned attack of Joseph and Azariah on the garrison at Jamnia (1 Macc. 5:55-62). Subsequently Judas defeated Gorgias at Jamnia, cutting off his arm and causing him to flee to Marisa (2 Macc. 12:32-37).

Gene J. Lawson






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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