1 Maccabees 7:16
“Whereupon they beleeued him: howbeit hee tooke of them threescore men, and slewe them in one day, according to the words which he wrote:”
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1 Maccabees 7:16 Context
14For, said they, one that is a Priest of the seede of Aaron, is come with this armie, and he will doe vs no wrong. 15So he spake vnto them peaceably, and sware vnto them, saying; We will procure the harme neither of you nor your friends. 16Whereupon they beleeued him: howbeit hee tooke of them threescore men, and slewe them in one day, according to the words which he wrote: 17The flesh of thy Saints [haue they cast out] and their blood haue they shed round about Ierusalem, and there was none to bury them. 18Wherefore the feare and dread of them fell vpon all the people, who said, There is neither trueth, nor righteousnesse in them; for they haue broken the couenant and othe that they made.
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Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,
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