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Old Testament · The Historical Books
3 Maccabees
7 chapters · 228 verses
1Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus h…2Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees over against th…3On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no long…4Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of jo…5Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage…6And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained t…7King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to al…
