OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:6

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He called his honorable servants, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom while he was still alive.

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Verse 6. Bed. Some suppose through poison, (Diod. xvii. Saint Jerome ad Lætam.) or excess of wine. Athen. x. 11.—This was enough. Bible.—So perished the man who would claim divine honours! Calmet.

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