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2 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put the high-priesthood up for sale every year. 4 He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his tens of thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants. 5 Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five stadia[a] from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.
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- 2 Maccabees 11:5 Meaning of Gk uncertain
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
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