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2 Maccabees 14:6-8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Maccabees 14:6-8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
6 ‘Those of the Jews who are called Hasideans, whose leader is Judas Maccabeus, are keeping up war and stirring up sedition, and will not let the kingdom attain tranquillity. 7 Therefore I have laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high-priesthood—and have now come here, 8 first because I am genuinely concerned for the interests of the king, and second because I have regard also for my compatriots. For through the folly of those whom I have mentioned our whole nation is now in no small misfortune.
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