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Wherefore, O king, seeing 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 shewest unto all.
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For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the state should be quiet.
11
This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king's friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense Demetrius.
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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Commanding him to slay Judas, and to scatter them that were with him, and to make Alcimus high priest of the great temple.