1 Maccabees 11:38
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The Intrigue of Trypho
38 When King Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him and that there was no opposition to him, he dismissed all his troops, all of them to their own homes, except the foreign troops whom he had recruited from the islands of the nations. So all the troops who had served under his predecessors hated him.(A)
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1 Maccabees 14:5
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5 To crown all his honors he took Joppa for a harbor
and opened a way to the isles of the sea.(A)
1 Maccabees 15:1
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Letter of Antiochus VII
15 Antiochus, son of King Demetrius, sent a letter from the islands of the sea to Simon, the priest and ethnarch of the Jews, and to all the nation;(A)
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