1 Maccabees 6:27-29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
27 Unless you act quickly to prevent them, they will do even worse things than these, and you will not be able to stop them.”
28 (A)When the king heard this he was enraged, and he called together all his Friends, the officers of his army, and the commanders of the cavalry. 29 Mercenary forces also came to him from other kingdoms and from the islands of the seas.
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