Graphic Bible · Scene 29 of 60
Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 3
The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.
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· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 3:29
The Treasury Runs Low
A Small Force Before Great Armies · 1 Maccabees 3
Story guide: The depleted treasury and dwindling taxes expose the cost of the king’s disruption of the land.
Open this scene in the reader →29And he saw that the silver had run out from the treasuries, and that the taxes of the country were few because of the division and the blow that he had brought upon the land, by removing the customs that had existed from former days.
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