OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 15:27

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He would not receive them, but nullified all the covenants which he had made with him before, and was estranged from him.

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Verse 27. Not. Josephus seems to assert the contrary; observing that the king applied for aid, which was readily granted. Yet he soon forgot the favour, and sent Cendebeus against the Jews. He passed over the embassy of Athenobius. verse 28.

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