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1 Maccabees 1:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances. "

1 Maccabees 1:49

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47 that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean animals;

48 and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;

49 so that they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.

50 Whoever doesn’t do according to the word of the king, he shall die.

51 He wrote according to all these words to his whole kingdom. He appointed overseers over all the people, and he commanded the cities of Judah to sacrifice, city by city.

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"and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear."

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"that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God."

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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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