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1 Maccabees 9:53-55
Good News Translation
1 Maccabees 9:53-55
Good News Translation
53 Then he took the sons of the leading men of the country as hostages and imprisoned them in the fort.
54 In the second month of the year 153,[a] the High Priest Alcimus ordered that the wall of the inner court of the Temple be torn down. This would have destroyed what the prophets had accomplished; but just as the work began, 55 he had a stroke, and work was stopped. Paralyzed and unable to open his mouth, he could not speak or even make a will for his family.
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- 1 Maccabees 9:54 the year 153: This corresponds to 159 B.C.
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