2 Maccabees 14:2
“Had taken the countrey, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protectour.”
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2 Maccabees 14:2 Context
1After three yeres was Iudas enformed that Demetrius the sonne of Seleucus hauing entred by the hauen of Tripolis with a great power and nauie, 2Had taken the countrey, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protectour. 3Now one Alcimus who had beene hie Priest, and had defiled himselfe wilfully in the times of their mingling (with the Gentiles) seeing that by no meanes hee could saue himselfe, nor haue any more accesse to the holy Altar, 4Came to king Demetrius in the hundreth and one and fiftieth yeere, presenting vnto him a crowne of golde, and a palme, and also of the boughes which were vsed solemnly in the Temple: and so that day he helde his peace.
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Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protector.
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