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2 Maccabees 12:24-26
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 12:24-26
New Catholic Bible
24 Timothy himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater and their men, but with considerable cunning, he begged them to let him go unharmed, the reason being that he had the parents and relatives of many of them in his power and their fate was in his hands. 25 When he made a solemn pledge to return those hostages unharmed, they set him free for the sake of saving their kindred. 26 Judas then marched against Car-naim and the temple of Atargatis,[a] where he slaughtered twenty-five thousand people.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:26 Atargatis: a Syrian goddess whose symbol was the body of a fish.