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2 Maccabees 11:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 11:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 gathered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks(A) 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.(B) 4 He took no account whatever of the power of God but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry and his thousands of cavalry and his eighty elephants.
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