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1 Maccabees 7:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Alcimus struggled to maintain his high priesthood. "

1 Maccabees 7:21

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19 Bacchides withdrew from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth. He sent and seized many of the deserters who were with him, and some of the people, and he killed them, throwing them into a large pit.

20 He placed Alcimus in charge of the country and left with him a force to aid him. Then Bacchides went away to the king.

21 Alcimus struggled to maintain his high priesthood.

22 All those who troubled their people joined him, and they took control of the land of Judah, and did great damage in Israel.

23 Judas saw all the wrongs that Alcimus and his company had done among the children of Israel, even more than the Gentiles.

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2 Maccabees 14:3

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"But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,"

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1 Maccabees 9:56

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"Alcimus died at that time with great torment."

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2 Maccabees 14:26

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"But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, and having taken possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor."

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1 Maccabees 9:54

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"And in the one hundred fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He also pulled down the works of the prophets."

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Acts 13:8

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"But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith."

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Job 12:19

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"He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty."

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1 Maccabees 7:1

"In the one hundred fifty first year, Demetrius the son of Seleucus came out of Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there."

1 Maccabees 7:2

"It came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him."

1 Maccabees 7:3

"The thing became known to him, and he said, “Don’t show me their faces!”"

1 Maccabees 7:4

"So the army killed them. Then Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom."

1 Maccabees 7:5

"All the lawless and ungodly men of Israel came to him. Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest."

1 Maccabees 7:6

"They accused the people to the king, saying, “Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land."

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