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2 Maccabees 14:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Maccabees 14:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Alcimus Speaks against Judas
14 Three years later, word came to Judas and his men that Demetrius son of Seleucus had sailed into the harbour of Tripolis with a strong army and a fleet, 2 and had taken possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias.
3 Now a certain Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest but had wilfully defiled himself in the times of separation,[a] realized that there was no way for him to be safe or to have access again to the holy altar,
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- 2 Maccabees 14:3 Other ancient authorities read of mixing
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