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4 Maccabees 4
4 Maccabees 4:19
4 Maccabees 4
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Jason changed the nation's culture and the government so that they completely contradicted the Law.
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Jason had agreed to pay the king three thousand six hundred sixty talents every year if he were made high priest.
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So Antiochus appointed Jason to the office of high priest and made him the ruler of the nation.
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Jason changed the nation's culture and the government so that they completely contradicted the Law.
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He constructed a Greek school and athletic complex in the heart of the city and abandoned the care of the temple.
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God's sense of justice was provoked by these things, so God caused Antiochus himself to start a war against the nation.
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