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27 Every bridegroom sang a funeral song,
and every bride sat mourning in her room.
28 All our people were clothed with shame,
and our land trembled for them.

29 Two years later Antiochus sent a large army from Mysia[a] against the towns of Judea. When the soldiers entered Jerusalem,

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  1. 1 Maccabees 1:29 Probable text a large army from Mysia; Greek a tax collector with a large army.

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