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1 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Last Days of Antiochus Epiphanes
6 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.(A) 2 Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.(B)
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