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And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict, and no fewer sold than slain.
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Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go into the most holy temple in all the world, Menelaus, that traitor to the laws and to his own country, being his guide.
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And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings for the augmentation and glory and honor of the place, he gave them away.
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And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and therefore His eye was not upon the place.
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For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man would haved forthwith been scourged and turned back from his presumption as soon as he had come, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
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Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.
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And therefore the place itself, which was partaker with them in the adversities that happened to the nation, afterward participated in the benefits sent from the Lord; and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up in all glory.
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So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed with all haste unto Antioch, believing in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable on foot; such was the haughtiness of his mind!
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And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, by his country a Phrygian, and in manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
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and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest, bore a heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
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He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those who were at their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort.