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1 Maccabees 1:42 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and that each should forsake his own laws. All the nations agreed according to the word of the king. "

1 Maccabees 1:42

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40 According to her glory, so was her dishonor multiplied, and her exaltation was turned into mourning.

41 King Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,

42 and that each should forsake his own laws. All the nations agreed according to the word of the king.

43 Many of Israel consented to his worship, sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath.

44 The king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,

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1 Maccabees 2:19

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"And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, “If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have chosen to follow his commandments,"

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Esther 3:8

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"So he spoke to King Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them."

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Esther 1:22

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"and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses."

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Jeremiah 34:10

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"All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant and everyone his female servant go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go,"

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1 Peter 2:13

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"Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,"

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Ezra 7:26

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"Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment."

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1 Maccabees 1:1

"After Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of the Persians and Medes, it came to pass, after he had struck him, that he reigned in his place, in former time, over Greece."

1 Maccabees 1:2

"He fought many battles, won many strongholds, killed the kings of the earth,"

1 Maccabees 1:3

"went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. The earth was quiet before him. He was exalted. His heart was lifted up."

1 Maccabees 1:4

"He gathered together an exceedingly strong army and ruled over countries, nations, and principalities, and they paid him tribute."

1 Maccabees 1:5

"After these things he fell sick, and perceived that he was going to die."

1 Maccabees 1:6

"He called his honorable servants, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom while he was still alive."

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