OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 10:39

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As for Ptolemais and its land, I have given it as a gift to the sanctuary that is at Jerusalem, for the expenses of the sanctuary.

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Verse 39. Ptolemais. This was not a great present, as it was in the hands of his rival. But he wished the Jews to retake it.

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