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The reclining Mattathias addresses seated Judas and Simon in a plain room.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 2

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 2:49

    A Father's Final Charge

    A Covenant in the Wilderness · 1 Maccabees 2

    Story guide: Mattathias begins his final charge with Judas and Simon nearby. The modest room is an interpretive setting; the account does not name the place where he speaks or dies.

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    49And the days drew near for Mattathias to die, and he said to his sons, “Now arrogance and reproach have grown strong, and it is a time of ruin and furious wrath.”

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