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1 Maccabees 7:1-2
Good News Translation
1 Maccabees 7:1-2
Good News Translation
The High Priest Alcimus and the Campaign of Nicanor(A)
7 In the year 151,[a] Demetrius son of Seleucus left Rome and with a few men landed at a town on the Mediterranean coast, where he proclaimed himself king. 2 As he was making his way to the royal palace of his ancestors, the soldiers arrested Antiochus the Fifth and Lysias, planning to take them to Demetrius.
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- 1 Maccabees 7:1 the year 151: This corresponds to 161 B.C.
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