2 Maccabees · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Yahudim (Jews) were about their husbandry.
2But of the governours of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.
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