OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 8:4

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and how by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings who came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had defeated them, and struck them severely; and how the rest give them tribute year by year.

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Verse 4. Earth, little known to the Jews, like Syphax, and so forth

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