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1 Maccabees 13:39 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown tax which you owed us. If there were any other tax collected in Jerusalem, let it be collected no longer. "
1 Maccabees 13:39
Verse in Context
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37 The golden crown and the palm branch, which you sent, we have received. We are ready to make a steadfast peace with you, yes, and to write to our officers to release you from tribute.
38 Whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed. The strongholds, which you have built, let them be your own.
39 As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown tax which you owed us. If there were any other tax collected in Jerusalem, let it be collected no longer.
40 If any among you are qualified to be enrolled in our court, let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.”
41 In the one hundred seventieth year, the yoke of the Gentiles was taken away from Israel.
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1 Maccabees 13:1
"Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah and destroy it utterly."
1 Maccabees 13:2
"He saw that the people were trembling in great fear. So he went up to Jerusalem and gathered the people together."
1 Maccabees 13:3
"He encouraged them, and said to them, “You yourselves know all the things that I, my kindred, and my father’s house have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen."
1 Maccabees 13:4
"Because of this, all my brothers have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone."
1 Maccabees 13:5
"Now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction, for I am not better than my kindred."
1 Maccabees 13:6
"However, I will take vengeance for my nation, for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children, because all the Gentiles have gathered out of hatred to destroy us.”"
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