Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians. 2 Maccabees 4:27So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it. 2 Maccabees 4:28 For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king. 2 Maccabees 4:30 When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine. 2 Maccabees 4:31 The king, therefore, went in all haste to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy. Context 2 Maccabees 4…28For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king. 29And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians. 30When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 4:27 So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it. 2 Maccabees 4:28 For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king. 2 Maccabees 4:30 When these things were in doing, it fell out that they of Tharsus, and Mallos, raised a sedition, because they were given for a gift to Antiochus, the king's concubine. 2 Maccabees 4:31 The king, therefore, went in all haste to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, for his deputy. |
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