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1 Maccabees 6:1-3
Revised Standard Version
1 Maccabees 6:1-3
Revised Standard Version
The Last Days of Antiochus Epiphanes
6 King Anti′ochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold. 2 Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedo′nian king who first reigned over the Greeks. 3 So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city
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