2 Maccabees 9:19

2 Maccabees 9:19 Context

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. ²⁰If ye, and your children fare well, and your affaires be to your contentment, I giue very great thankes to God, hauing my hope in heauen. ²¹As for mee I was weake, or else I would haue remembred kindly your honour, and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grieuous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:

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