OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 10:23

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“What is this that we have done, that Alexander has gotten ahead of us in establishing friendship with the Jews to strengthen himself?

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Verse 23. Prevented, by sending presents. Demetrius had sent a letter and liberated the hostages, whom Jonathas might justly receive without declaring for the king. Menochius.

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