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2 Maccabees 1:5-7
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 1:5-7
Revised Standard Version
5 May he hear your prayers and be reconciled to you, and may he not forsake you in time of evil. 6 We are now praying for you here.
7 In the reign of Deme′trius, in the one hundred and sixty-ninth year,[a] we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress which came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom
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- 2 Maccabees 1:7 143 b.c.
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