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Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold.
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Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold.
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And that there was in it a temple, exceeding rich: and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields which king Alexander, son of Philip the Macedonian that reigned first in Greece, had left there.
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Lo, he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it: But he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.
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And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.
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And whilst he was in Persia, there came one that told him, how the armies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight: