OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 8:26

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To those who make war upon them, they shall not give supplies, food, weapons, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything in return.

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Verse 26. Shall they. The Jews and Romans shall pay their own forces. Tirinus. Menochius.—Grotius explains it, as if the former were to give no aid to the enemies of Rome.

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