2 Maccabees 10:9

2 Maccabees 10:9 Context

⁷Therefore they bare branches, and faire boughes and palmes also, and sang Psalmes vnto him, that had giuen them good successe in clensing his place. ⁸They ordeined also by a common statute, and decree, That euery yeere those dayes should be kept of the whole nation of the Iewes. ⁹And this was the ende of Antiochus called Epiphanes. ¹⁰Now will wee declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the sonne of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the warres. ¹¹So when he was come to þ^e crowne, he set one Lysias ouer the affaires of his Realme, and [appointed him] chiefe gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice.

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