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2 Maccabees 14:12-14
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 14:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 The king immediately chose Nicanor,[a] who had been in command of the elephants, and appointed him as governor of Judea. Then, he sent him forth 13 with orders to put Judas to death, to disperse his followers, and to install Alcimus as high priest of the great temple.
14 The Gentiles throughout Judea, who had fled from the attacks of Judas, now flocked to join Nicanor, confident that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would mean prosperity for themselves.
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- 2 Maccabees 14:12 Nicanor: the Syrian general who had directed the first great expedition against Judea at the time of Antiochus IV. During the reign of Antiochus V, he had dissociated himself from the politics of the prime minister Lysias and had gone to Rome where he joined Demetrius I and accompanied him in his escape from there and eventual acquisition of the throne.
