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1 Maccabees 1:57 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Anyone who was found with any book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death. "

1 Maccabees 1:57

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55 At the doors of the houses and in the streets they burned incense.

56 They tore up the books of the law which they found and set them on fire.

57 Anyone who was found with any book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death.

58 Thus did they in their might to Israel, to those who were found month by month in the cities.

59 On the twenty-fifth day of the month they sacrificed upon the idol altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering.

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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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