1 Maccabees 6:2
Good News Translation
The temple was very rich, containing gold shields, armor, and weapons left there by Alexander, son of King Philip of Macedonia, who was the first to rule the Greek Empire.

New Revised Standard Version
Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.

Contemporary English Version
The temple in Elymais was especially rich because of the gold shields, armor, and weapons that had been left there by Alexander the Great, the first king to rule the Greeks.

New American Bible
and that its temple was very rich, containing gold helmets, breastplates, and weapons left there by the first king of the Greeks, Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 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 6:1
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 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.

1 Maccabees 6:4
And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

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. 3So 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.…
Cross References
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 6:1
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 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.

1 Maccabees 6:4
And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.



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1 Maccabees 6:1
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