1 Maccabees 13:18
“Who might haue said, Because I sent him not the money, and the children, therefore is Ionathan dead.”
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1 Maccabees 13:18 Context
16Wherefore, now send an hundred talents of siluer, and two of his sonnes for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not reuolt from vs, and we will let him goe. 17Heereupon Simon, albeit he perceiued that they spake deceiptfully vnto him, yet sent he the money, and the children, lest peraduenture he should procure to himselfe great hatred of the people: 18Who might haue said, Because I sent him not the money, and the children, therefore is [Ionathan] dead. 19So he sent them the children, and the hundred talents: Howbeit [Tryphon] dissembled, neither would he let Ionathan goe. 20And after this came Tryphon to inuade the land, and destroy it, going round about by the way that leadeth vnto Adora, but Simon and his host marched against him in euery place wheresoeuer he went.
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Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and the children, therefore is Jonathan dead.
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