# 2 Maccabees 9:18

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- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
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But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner: