OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 14:20

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This is the copy of the letter which the Spartans sent: “The rulers and the city of the Spartans, to Simon the high priest, to the elders, the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, our kindred, greetings.

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Verse 20. Princes. Cleomenes, the last king, died in Egypt, A. 3784, and the tyrant Nabis perished long before this time. Grot.—Cities. Many depended on Sparta, the metropolis. Worthington.

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