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2 Maccabees 4:29 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was over the Cyprians. "

2 Maccabees 4:29

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27 Menelaus had possession of the office, but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing was regularly paid, even though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it—

28 for his job was the gathering of the revenues—so they were both called by the king to his presence.

29 Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was over the Cyprians.

30 Now while this was the state of things, it came to pass that the people of Tarsus and Mallus revolted because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.

31 The king therefore quickly came to settle matters, leaving for his deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank.

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