2 Maccabees 4:17

2 Maccabees 4:17 Context

¹⁵Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all. ¹⁶By reason whereof sore calamity came vpon them: for they had them to be their enemies and auengers, whose custome they followed so earnestly, and vnto whom they desired to be like in all things. ¹⁷For it is not a light thing to doe wickedly against the lawes of God, but the time following shall declare these things. ¹⁸Now when the game that was vsed euery fift yere was kept at Tyrus, the king being present, ¹⁹This vngracious Iason sent speciall messengers from Ierusalem, who were Antiochians, to carie three hundred drachmes of siluer to the sacrifice of Hercules, which euen the bearers therof thought fit not to bestow vpon the sacrifice, because it was not conuenient, but to be reserued for other charges.

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