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1 Machabees 6:11-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow, wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power!

12. But now I remember the evils that I have done in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause.

13. I know therefore that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land.

14. Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom.

15. And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus his son, and should bring him up for the kingdom.

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