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But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the wicked wretch. When Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, the king commanded to bring him to Beroea, and to put him to death in the way customary in that place.
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Verse 4. Evils. The ambition of Jason and of Menelaus had brought on all these disturbances. Calmet. 4:7. and so forth and 1 B. 1:12.—Place. It would seem on the journey to Judea: but Josephus says he was slain after the king’s return, at Antioch. The sacred historian relates what concerns him together. Calmet.—In the. Greek “conducting him to Berea.” Bible.
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