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promising the king at an interview[a] three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents. In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred and fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enrol the people of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch. 10 When the king assented and Jason[b] came to office, he at once shifted his compatriots over to the Greek way of life.

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  1. 2 Maccabees 4:8 Or by a petition
  2. 2 Maccabees 4:10 Gk he

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