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In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the
Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being
had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
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Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the
Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:
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And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals
at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers.
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Now when this that was done came to the king's car, he thought that Judea had revolted:
whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
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And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up
upon the houses.
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Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying
of virgins and infants.
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And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof
forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.
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Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go into the most holy temple of all the
world; Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his own country, being his guide:
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And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the
things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place,
he gave them away.
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And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a
while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city, and therefore his eye was not upon the place.
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For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had
forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus
the king sent to view the treasury.
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Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place far the people's
sake.
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And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to
the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken
in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all glory.
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So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he
departed in all haste unto Antiochia, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea
passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
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And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and
for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
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And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy
hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
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