Parallel
2 Maccabees 9:25
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth:
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