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Demetrius crosses an open timber doorway into a stone royal courtyard, with two attendants behind him.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 7

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 7:2

    The Royal House

    Broken Oaths and the Fall of Nicanor · 1 Maccabees 7

    Story guide: Demetrius enters the royal courtyard while guards seize the young king and Lysias in another corridor.

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    2And it happened, as he was entering the royal house of his fathers, that the forces seized Antiochus and Lysias to bring them to him.

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