2 Maccabees 9:3

“Now when he came to Ecbatana, newes was brought him what had happened vnto Nicanor & Timotheus.”

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2 Maccabees 9:3 Context

¹About that time came Antiochus with dishonor out of the countrey of Persia. ²For he had entred the citie called Persepolis, and went about to rob the Temple, and to hold the citie, whereupon the multitude running to defend thēselues with their weapons, put them to flight, & so it happened þ^t Antiochus being put to flight of the inhabitants, returned with shame. ³Now when he came to Ecbatana, newes was brought him what had happened vnto Nicanor & Timotheus. ⁴Then swelling with anger, hee thought to auenge vpon the Iewes the disgrace done vnto him by those that made him flie. Therfore commanded he his chariot man to driue without ceasing, and to dispatch the iourney, the iudgement of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, þ^t he would come to Ierusalem, & make it a common burying place of þ^e Iewes. ⁵But the Lord almightie, the God of Israel smote him with an incurable and inuisible plague: for assoone as hee had spoken these words, a paine of the bowels that was remediles, came vpon him, & sore torments of the inner parts.