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2 Maccabees 13:1-3
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 13:1-3
Common English Bible
Events in Modein and Beth-zur
13 In year 149[a] the news reached Judas’ followers that Antiochus Eupator was moving against Judea with a large army. 2 With him was Lysias, Antiochus’ guardian and head of the government. Each one had a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand foot soldiers, fifty-three hundred cavalry, and twenty-two elephants, as well as three hundred chariots armed with scythes. 3 Menelaus also joined them and encouraged Antiochus with many lies, not out of a concern for the safety of his homeland but because he expected that he would be set over the government.
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- 2 Maccabees 13:1 163 BCE
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