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katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE |
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Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
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| 6 1 | King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold. | Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. 1Mace.6.1-17 | 2Mace.1.11-17 | 2Mace.9.1-29 | 2Mace.10.9-11 | |
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| 2 | Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks. | | |
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| 3 | So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city | | |
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| 4 | and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon. | | |
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| 5 | Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed; | | |
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| 6 | that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews; that the Jews had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils which they had taken from the armies they had cut down; | | |
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| 7 | that they had torn down the abomination which he had erected upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his city. | | |
