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It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;
12
But with their friends and such as relied upon them they kept amity: and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and nigh, insomuch as all that heard of their name were afraid of them:
13
Also that, whom they would help to a kingdom, those reign; and whom again they would, they displace: finally, that they were greatly exalted:
14
Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby:
15
Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.