OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 11:21

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Some lawless men who hated their own nation went to the king and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.

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Verse 21. Nations, by their actions. They wished to be free from the restraint of the law. Bible.—When pastors seek to extirpate sin, the wicked represented this to princes as dangerous to the state. Worthington.

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