2 Maccabees 9:17
“Yea, and that also hee would become a Iew himselfe, and goe through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.”
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2 Maccabees 9:17 Context
15And as touching the Iewes, whom hee had iudged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be deuoured of the foules, and wild beasts, he would make them al equals to þe citizens of Athens, 16And the holy Temple, which before he had spoiled, hee would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his owne reuenew defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices: 17Yea, and that also hee would become a Iew himselfe, and goe through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God. 18But for all this his paines would not cease: for the iust iudgement of God was come vpō him: therfore despairing of his health, he wrote vnto the Iewes the letter vnderwritten, containing the forme of a supplicatiō, after this maner. 19Antiochus king and gouernour, to the good Iewes his Citizens, wisheth much ioy, health, and prosperity.
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Yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.
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