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About that time king Antiochus travelling through the high countries heard say, that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold;
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And that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Grecians, had left there.
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Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,
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Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
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Moreover there came one who brought him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judea, were put to flight:
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And that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power was driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils, which they had gotten of the armies, whom they had destroyed: