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I say to myself, What distress I've come to! What a great flood I've now been plunged into! Once I was kind and was loved in my power.
12
But now I recall the wrongs I did in Jerusalem. I seized all its silver and gold equipment. I ordered the destruction of the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.
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I know it's because of all this that these misfortunes have come on me. I'm here, dying of bitter disappointment, in a foreign land."
14
Then he called for one of his advisors named Philip and made him ruler over all of his kingdom.
15
He gave him the crown, his robe, and the seal so that he might guide his son Antiochus and prepare him to be king.