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2 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.(A) 4 He took no account whatever of the power of God but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry and his thousands of cavalry and his eighty elephants. 5 Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five schoinoi[a] from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.(B)
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- 11.5 A unit for measuring distance
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