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2 Maccabees 11:1-2 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. A short time after this Lysias the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened,

2. Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles:

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