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2 Maccabees 5:23-25
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2 Maccabees 5:23-25
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
23 And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.
24 And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort.
25 Who when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms.
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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
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