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Antiochus speaks to Lysias beside a closed order roll.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 3

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 3:35

    Orders Against Israel

    A Small Force Before Great Armies · 1 Maccabees 3

    Story guide: Antiochus orders Lysias to break Israel’s strength and erase Jerusalem’s remaining memory.

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    35to send a force against them, to crush and remove the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away its memory from the place,

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