1 Maccabees 1:10
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Antiochus Epiphanes and Renegade Jews
10 From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.(A)
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2 Maccabees 8:9
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9 Then Ptolemy[a] promptly appointed Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king’s First[b] Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nations, to wipe out the entire people of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service.(A)
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