2 Maccabees 10:14
“But when Gorgias was gouernour of the holds, hee hired souldiers, and nourished warre continually with the Iewes:”
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2 Maccabees 10:14 Context
12For Ptolomeus that was called Macron, chosing rather to doe iustice vnto the Iewes, for the wrong that had bene done vnto them, endeuoured to continue peace with them. 13Whereupon being accused of [the kings] friends, before Eupator, & called traitor at euery word, because he had left Cyprus that Philometor had cōmitted vnto him, & departed to Antiochus Epiphanes; and seeing that hee was in no honorable place, he was so discouraged, that he poysoned himselfe and died. 14But when Gorgias was gouernour of the holds, hee hired souldiers, and nourished warre continually with the Iewes: 15And therewithall the Idumeans hauing gotten into their handes the most commodious holdes, kept the Iewes occupied, and receiuing those that were banished from Ierusalem, they went about to nourish warre. 16Then they that were wich Maccabeus made supplication, & besought God, that he would be their helper, and so they ranne with violence vpon the strong holds of the Idumeans,
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But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:
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