1 Maccabees 6:1
Good News Translation
As King Antiochus the Fourth was passing through Mesopotamia, he heard of a city in Persia, named Elymais, which was famous for its riches in silver and gold.

New Revised Standard Version
King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold.

Contemporary English Version
One day, as King Antiochus the Fourth was leading his army through Mesopotamia, he heard about the Persian city of Elymais, which was famous for its treasures of silver and gold.

New American Bible
As King Antiochus passed through the eastern provinces, he heard that in Persia there was a city, Elam, famous for its wealth in silver and gold,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold,

1 Maccabees 5:67
In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.

1 Maccabees 5:68
And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land of Juda.

1 Maccabees 6:2
And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

1 Maccabees 6:3
So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.

Context
1 Maccabees 6
1Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold, 2And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 5:67
In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.

1 Maccabees 5:68
And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land of Juda.

1 Maccabees 6:2
And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

1 Maccabees 6:3
So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.



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1 Maccabees 5:68
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