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1 Maccabees 2:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" We will not listen to the king’s words, to turn aside from our worship, to the right hand, or to the left.” "

1 Maccabees 2:22

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20 yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers.

21 Far be it from us that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.

22 We will not listen to the king’s words, to turn aside from our worship, to the right hand, or to the left.”

23 When he had finished speaking these words, a Jew came in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.

24 Mattathias saw it, so his zeal was kindled, and his guts trembled, and he vented his wrath according to judgment, and ran and killed him upon the altar.

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1 Maccabees 2:1

"In those days Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem rose up; and he lived at Modin."

1 Maccabees 2:2

"And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddis;"

1 Maccabees 2:3

"Simon, who was called Thassi;"

1 Maccabees 2:4

"Judas, who was called Maccabaeus;"

1 Maccabees 2:5

"Eleazar, who was called Avaran; and Jonathan, who was called Apphus."

1 Maccabees 2:6

"He saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,"

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