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2 Maccabees 13:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 13:1-2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Menelaus Is Put to Death
13 In the one hundred forty-ninth year, word came to Judas and his men that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great army against Judea,(A) 2 and with him Lysias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.(B)
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