2 Maccabees 3:21
“Then it would haue pitied a man to see the falling downe of the multitude of all sorts, and the feare of the hie Priest, being in such an agony.”
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2 Maccabees 3:21 Context
19And the women girt with sackecloth vnder their breasts, abounded in the streetes, and the virgins that were kept in, ran some to the gates, and some to the walles, and others looked out of the windowes: 20And all holding their handes towards heauen, made supplication. 21Then it would haue pitied a man to see the falling downe of the multitude of all sorts, and the feare of the hie Priest, being in such an agony. 22They then called vpon the Almightie Lord, to keepe the things committed of trust, safe and sure, for those that had committed them. 23Neuerthelesse Heliodorus executed that which was decreed.
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Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest being in such an agony.
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