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2 Maccabees 9:27-29 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

27. I am confident that he will treat you with fairness and kindness, just as I have always done.”

28. And so, this murderer, who had cursed God, suffered the same terrible agonies he had brought on others, and then died a miserable death in the mountains of a foreign land.

29. One of his close friends, Philip, took his body home; but, because he was afraid of Antiochus' son, he went on to King Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt.

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