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2 Maccabees 4:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 4:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 For this reason heavy disaster overtook them, and those whose ways of living they admired and wished to imitate completely became their enemies and punished them.(A) 17 It is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws, a fact that later events will make clear.(B)
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18 When the quadrennial games were being held at Tyre and the king was present,(C)
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