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1 Maccabees 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 They had crushed in battle and conquered Philip, and King Perseus of the Macedonians,[a] and the others who rose up against them.(A) 6 They also had defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with one hundred twenty elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. He was crushed by them;(B) 7 they took him alive and decreed that he and those who would reign after him should pay a heavy tribute and give hostages and surrender some of their best provinces:(C)
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