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They did not care about anything their ancestors had valued; they prized only Greek honors.
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And this turned out to be the source of all their troubles, for the very people whose ways they admired and whose customs they tried to imitate became their enemies and oppressed them.
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It is a serious thing to disregard God's Law, as you will see from the following events.
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Once when the king was present for the athletic games that were held every five years in the city of Tyre,
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that worthless Jason sent some men there from Jerusalem, who were also enrolled as citizens of Antioch, to take 22,500 pounds of silver to pay for a sacrifice to the god Hercules. But even these men did not think it was fitting to use such a large sum of money for a sacrifice, and
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.