2 Maccabees 4:8
“Promising vnto the king by intercession, three hundred and threescore talents of siluer, and of another reuenew, eightie talents:”
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2 Maccabees 4:8 Context
6For he saw that it was impossible, that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leaue his folly, vnlesse the king did looke thereunto. 7But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus called Epiphanes, tooke the kingdom, Iason the brother of Onias, laboured vnder hand to bee hie Priest, 8Promising vnto the king by intercession, three hundred and threescore talents of siluer, and of another reuenew, eightie talents: 9Besides this, he promised to assigne an hundred and fiftie more, if he might haue licence to set him vp a place for exercise, and for the training vp of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Ierusalem [by the name of] Antiochians. 10Which when the king had granted, and hee had gotten into his hand the rule, he foorthwith brought his owne nation to the Greekish fashion.
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Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:
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