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1 Maccabees 2:44 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath. The rest fled to the Gentiles for safety. "

1 Maccabees 2:44

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42 Then a company of the Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, everyone who offered himself willingly for the law, were gathered together to them.

43 All those who fled from the evils were added to them, and supported them.

44 They mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath. The rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.

45 And Mattathias and his friends went around and pulled down the altars.

46 They forcibly circumcised the boys who were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.

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"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."

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