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1 Maccabees 10:45-47
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 10:45-47
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
45 And let the cost of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and fortifying it all around and the cost of rebuilding the walls in Judea also be paid from the revenues of the king.”(A)
Death of Demetrius
46 When Jonathan and the people heard these words, they did not believe or accept them, because they remembered the great wrongs that Demetrius[a] had done in Israel and how much he had oppressed them.(B) 47 They favored Alexander because he had been the first to speak peaceable words to them, and they remained his allies all his days.
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