OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 8:27

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When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they kept the Sabbath, greatly blessing and thanking the Lord who had saved them to this day, because he had begun to show mercy to them.

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Greek their weapons...the spoils of the enemy.

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