OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 6:16

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Then King Antiochus died there in the one hundred forty-ninth year.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 16. Nine. He began his persecution A. 143, so that it lasted six years and almost four months, or 2300 days, (Daniel 8:14) during which time Judas purified the temple, some months before the death of Epiphanes. Worthington.

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Circa B.Calmet. 164.

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