1 Then Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed this: (WEB) 2 “O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, (WEB) 3 look at the seed of Abraham, at the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as foreigners in a foreign land. (WEB)
3 Maccabees 6:1–3
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2 Maccabees 1:24–26
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