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2 Maccabees 1:12–14

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For He flung away into Persia those who had arrayed themselves against the holy city. For when the leader arrived, with a force that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests. Antiochus, on the pretext of marrying her, came into the place, he and his Friends who were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures by way of dowry;

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