2 Maccabees 9:23
22. Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.23. But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,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:
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