2 Maccabees 9:20
“If ye, and your children fare well, and your affaires be to your contentment, I giue very great thankes to God, hauing my hope in heauen.”
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2 Maccabees 9:20 Context
18But for all this his paines would not cease: for the iust iudgement of God was come vpō him: therfore despairing of his health, he wrote vnto the Iewes the letter vnderwritten, containing the forme of a supplicatiō, after this maner. 19Antiochus king and gouernour, to the good Iewes his Citizens, wisheth much ioy, health, and prosperity. 20If ye, and your children fare well, and your affaires be to your contentment, I giue very great thankes to God, hauing my hope in heauen. 21As for mee I was weake, or else I would haue remembred kindly your honour, and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grieuous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all: 22Not distrusting mine health, but hauing great hope to escape this sicknes
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If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.
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