2 Maccabees 4:28DRA
Bibbia Cattolica · DRA · Versetto 28 di 50
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"For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king."
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26Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.
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.
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 was 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 Antiochis, the king’s concubine.