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2 Maccabees 1:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For he threw out into Persia those who fought against us in the holy city. "

2 Maccabees 1:12

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10 The people of Jerusalem and those who are in Judea, with the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews who are in Egypt, we send greetings and health.

11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.

12 For he threw out into Persia those who fought against us in the holy city.

13 For when the prince had come there, with an army that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.

14 For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his friends who were with him, that they might take a large part of the treasures as a dowry.

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1 Maccabees 6:5

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"Then someone came into Persia bringing him news that the armies which went against the land of Judah had been put to flight,"

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2 Chronicles 36:20

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"He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,"

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2 Maccabees 9:2

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"For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he attempted to rob a temple and to control the city. Therefore the multitudes rushed in and the people of the country turned to defend themselves with weapons; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke his camp with disgrace."

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Esther 16:23

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"that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and who are well disposed toward the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction."

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Ezra 9:9

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"For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem."

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Esther 16:14

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"For by these methods he thought, having surprised us in a defenseless state, to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians."

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2 Maccabees 1:1

"The kindred, the Jews who are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greetings and good peace to the kindred, the Jews who are throughout Egypt."

2 Maccabees 1:2

"May God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants,"

2 Maccabees 1:3

"and give you all a heart to worship him and do his will with a strong heart and a willing soul."

2 Maccabees 1:4

"May God open your heart to his law and his statutes, and make peace,"

2 Maccabees 1:5

"and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time."

2 Maccabees 1:6

"Now we are praying for you here."

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