2 Maccabees 9:25 (WEB)
and, moreover, observing how the princes who are along the borders and neighbors to my kingdom watch for opportunities and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often entrusted and commended to most of you when I was hurrying to the upper provinces. I have written to him what is written below.
Cross-references · 1
1 John 2:14 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 9:25 (8 words in common).