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2 Maccabees 13:8-10
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 13:8-10
Revised Standard Version
8 And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes.
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9 The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show to the Jews things far worse than those that had been done[a] in his father’s time. 10 But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,
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- 2 Maccabees 13:9 Or the worst of the things that had been done
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