42 As a result, they wounded many of them, they killed some, and they forced the rest of them to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury. (WEB) 43 But about these matters, there was an accusation laid against Menelaus. (WEB) 44 When the king had come to Tyre, the three men who were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 4:42–44
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2 Maccabees 4:47–49
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1 Maccabees 11:24–26
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2 Maccabees 10:20–22
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1 Maccabees 7:3–5
3 The thing became known to him, and he said, “Don’t show me their faces!” (WEB) 4 So the army killed them. Then Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom. (WEB) 5 All the lawless and ungodly men of Israel came to him. Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest. (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:67–69
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4 Maccabees 4:20–22
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2 Maccabees 3:39–40
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Acts 25:1–3
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