2 Maccabees 1:14
“For Antiochus, as though hee would marrie her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receiue money in name of a dowrie.”
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2 Maccabees 1:14 Context
12For he cast them out that fought within the holy citie. 13For when the leader was come into Persia, and the armie with him that seemed inuincible, they were slaine in the temple of Nanea, by the deceit of Naneas priests. 14For Antiochus, as though hee would marrie her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receiue money in name of a dowrie. 15Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entred with a small company into the compasse of the temple, they shut the temple assoone as Antiochus was come in. 16And opening a priuie doore of the roofe, they threw stones like thunderbolts, and stroke downe the captaine, hewed them in pieces, smote off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.
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For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a dowry.
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