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first, verily for the unfeigned care I have for things pertaining to the king, and secondly, because I intend the good of mine own countrymen; for all our nation is in no small misery through the unadvised dealing of those aforesaid.
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Therefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
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For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the state should be quiet.
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This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king's friends, being maliciously set against Judas, incensed Demetrius the more.
12
And forthwith calling Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor over Judea, he sent him forth,
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