2 Maccabees 1:9

2 Maccabees 1:9 Context

⁷What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth yeere, wee the Iewes wrote vnto you, in the extremitie of trouble, that came vpon vs in those yeeres, from the time that Iason and his company reuolted from the holy land, and kingdome, ⁸And burnt the porch, and shed innocent blood. Then we prayed vnto the Lord, and were heard: we offered also sacrifices, and fine flowre, and lighted the lampes, and set forth the loaues. ⁹And now see that ye keepe the feast of Tabernacles in the moneth Casleu. ¹⁰In the hundreth, fourescore, and eight yeere, the people that were at Ierusalem, and in Iudea, and the counsel, and Iudas, sent greeting and health vnto Aristobulus, king Ptolomeus master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Iewes that were in Egypt. ¹¹Insomuch as God hath deliuered vs from great perils, wee thanke him highly, as hauing bin in battell against a king.

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