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2 Maccabees 11:1-3
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 11:1-3
Revised Standard Version
Lysias Besieges Beth-zur
11 Very soon after this, Lys′ias, the king’s guardian and kinsman, who was in charge of the government, being vexed at what had happened, 2 gathered about eighty thousand men and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks, 3 and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.
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