set up within the compass of
the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;

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Also that the copies thereof should be laid up in the
treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.

1 Mac 15:1
Moreover Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters
from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of
the Jews, and to all the people;

1 Mac 15:2
The contents whereof were these: King Antiochus to Simon the
high priest and prince of his nation, and to the people of the
Jews, greeting:

1 Mac 15:3
Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom
of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I
may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered
a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of
war;

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My meaning also being to go through the country, that I may
be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities
in the kingdom desolate:

1 Mac 15:5
Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which the
kings before me granted thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they
granted.

1 Mac 15:6
I give thee leave also to coin money for thy country with
thine own stamp.

1 Mac 15:7
And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be
free; and all the armour that thou hast made, and fortresses
that thou hast built, and keepest in thine hands, let them
remain unto thee.

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And if anything be, or shall be, owing to the king, let it be
forgiven thee from this time forth for evermore.

1 Mac 15:9
Furthermore, when we have obtained our kingdom, we will
honour thee, and thy nation, and thy temple, with great honour,
so that your honour shall be known throughout the world.

1 Mac 15:10
In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus
into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came
together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.

1 Mac 15:11
Wherefore being pursued by king Antiochus, he fled unto Dora,
which lieth by the sea side:

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For he saw that troubles came upon him all at once, and that
his forces had forsaken him.

1 Mac 15:13
Then camped Antiochus against Dora, having with him an
hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand
horsemen.

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And when he had compassed the city round about, and joined
ships close to the town on the sea side, he vexed the city by
land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in