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1 Maccabees 7:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They ordained to keep this day year by year on the thirteenth day of Adar. "

1 Maccabees 7:49

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47 The Jews took the spoils and the booty, and they cut off Nicanor’s head and his right hand, which he had stretched out so arrogantly, and brought them, and hung them up beside Jerusalem.

48 The people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.

49 They ordained to keep this day year by year on the thirteenth day of Adar.

50 So the land of Judah had rest a few days.

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Related Verses

2 Maccabees 15:36

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"They all ordained with a common decree to in no way let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian language), the day before the day of Mordecai."

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Esther 10:13

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"They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel."

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2 Maccabees 10:8

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"They ordained also with a public statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should observe these days every year."

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Esther 9:21

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"to establish these as joyful days and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;"

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1 Maccabees 4:59

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"Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year for eight days, from the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy."

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1 Maccabees 13:52

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"Simon ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. He made the hill of the temple that was by the citadel stronger than before, and he lived there with his men."

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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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