2 Esdras 12:22-24

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²² “As for your seeing three heads at rest, this is the interpretation:^{(A) 23} In its last days the Most High will raise up three kings,^[a] and they^[b] shall renew many things in it and shall rule the earth^{(B) 24} and its inhabitants more oppressively than all who were before them. Therefore they are called the heads of the eagle,^(C)