OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 13:9

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Now the king, infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had been done in his father’s time.

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Verse 9. With. Greek “rendered barbarous by his designs,” ( Bible.) intending to punish the Jews worse than his father.

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Some authorities read indignant.

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