form of a supplication, after this manner:

2 Mac 9:19
Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens
wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:

2 Mac 9:20
If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to
your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my
hope in heaven.

2 Mac 9:21
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly
your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being
taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care
for the common safety of all:

2 Mac 9:22
Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape
this sickness.

2 Mac 9:23
But considering that even my father, at what time he led an
army into the high countries, appointed a successor,

2 Mac 9:24
To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to
expectation, or if any tidings were brought that were grievous,
they of the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not
be troubled:

2 Mac 9:25
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:

2 Mac 9:26
Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits
that I have done unto you generally, and in special, and that
every man will be still faithful to me and my son.

2 Mac 9:27
For I am persuaded that he understanding my mind will
favourably and graciously yield to your desires.

2 Mac 9:28
Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most
grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable
death in a strange country in the mountains.

2 Mac 9:29
And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his
body, who also fearing the son of Antiochus went into Egypt to
Ptolemeus Philometor.

2 Mac 10:1
Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them,
recovered the temple and the city:

2 Mac 10:2
But the altars which the heathen had built in the open
street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.

2 Mac 10:3
And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and
striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a
sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights,
and shewbread.

2 Mac 10:4
When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the
Lord that they might co