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2 Maccabees 8:7-9
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 8:7-9
Common English Bible
7 He especially found the night advantageous for such attacks. Talk of his good courage spread everywhere.
8 Philip saw how Judas was progressing little by little and gaining ground with each success, so he wrote to Ptolemy the governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia to come to the aid of the royal government. 9 Nicanor, Patroclus’ son, one of the king’s most important political advisors,[a] was immediately chosen and sent with a military unit of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nationalities to eliminate Judea’s entire population. He also sent with him Gorgias, a general experienced in military affairs.
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