16 For this reason, severe calamity overtook them. The men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these became their enemies and punished them. (WEB) 17 For it is not a light thing to show irreverence to God’s laws, but later events will make this clear. (WEB) 18 Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 4:16–18
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