8 So the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 7:8
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1 Maccabees 9:24–26
24 In those days there was an exceedingly great famine, and the country went over to their side. (WEB) 25 Bacchides chose the ungodly men and made them rulers of the country. (WEB) 26 They inquired and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took ve… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 7:19–21
19 Bacchides withdrew from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth. He sent and seized many of the deserters who were with him, and some of the people, and he killed them, throwing them into a large pit. (WEB) 20 He placed Alcimus in charge of the country and left with him a fo… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 3:31–33
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2 Maccabees 10:10–12
10 Now we will declare what came to pass under Antiochus Eupator, who proved himself a son of that ungodly man, and will summarize the main evils of the wars. (WEB) 11 For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor and supreme govern… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 3:37–39
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2 Maccabees 14:11–13
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1 Maccabees 6:13–15
13 I perceive that it is because of this that these evils have come upon me. Behold, I am perishing through great grief in a strange land.” (WEB) 14 Then he called for Philip, one of his friends, and set him over all his kingdom. (WEB) 15 He gave him his crown, his robe, and his si… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 3:36–38
36 He testified to all men the works of the greatest God, which he had seen with his eyes. (WEB) 37 When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said, (WEB) 38 “If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him th… (WEB)
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