5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time. (WEB) 6 Now we are praying for you here. (WEB) 7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred sixty-ninth year, we the Jews have already written to you in the suffering and in the distress that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 1:5–7
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