OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 11:59

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He made his brother Simon governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.

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Verse 59. Tyre. Eupator had given only as far as Ptolemais. 2 B. 13:24. This Antiochus gave the two brothers, the highest marks of esteem, making them governors of Phenicia and of Palestine.

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