OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 1:13

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For when the prince had come there, with an army that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.

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Verse 13. Nanea. A Persian goddess, which some have taken for Diana, others for Venus. Challoner.—Her temple at Ecbatana was renowned. 1 B. 6:1.

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