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An empty white cloth diadem rests on a folded plum mantle beside Lysias’s folded charcoal mantle.
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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 7:4

    Demetrius Takes the Throne

    Broken Oaths and the Fall of Nicanor · 1 Maccabees 7

    Story guide: Their empty garments mark the deaths of Antiochus and Lysias; Demetrius then sits alone on the royal throne.

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    4And the forces killed them, and Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom.

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