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2 Maccabees 4:16-18
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 4:16-18
Revised Standard Version
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. 17 For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws—a fact which later events will make clear.
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18 When the quadrennial games were being held at Tyre and the king was present,
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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