1 Maccabees 6:18
“About this time they that were in the towre shut vp the Israelites round about the Sanctuarie, and sought alwayes their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.”
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1 Maccabees 6:18 Context
16So king Antiochus died there in the hundreth forty and ninth yeere. 17Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set vp Antiochus his sonne (whom he had brought vp being yong) to reigne in his stead, and his name he called Eupator. 18About this time they that were in the towre shut vp the Israelites round about the Sanctuarie, and sought alwayes their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen. 19Wherefore Iudas purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them. 20So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftith yeere, and he made mounts for shot against them, and [other] engines:
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About this time they that were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.
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