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2 Maccabees 10:27 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Rising from their prayer they took up their weapons, and advanced some distance from the city. When they had come near to their enemies, they halted. "

2 Maccabees 10:27

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25 But as he drew near, Maccabaeus and his men sprinkled dirt on their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God,

26 and falling down upon the step in front of the altar, implored him to become gracious to them, and be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares.

27 Rising from their prayer they took up their weapons, and advanced some distance from the city. When they had come near to their enemies, they halted.

28 When the dawn was now breaking, the two armies joined in battle, the one part having this, beside virtue, for a pledge of success and victory, that they had fled to the Lord for refuge, the others making their passion their leader in the fight.

29 When the battle became strong, there appeared out of heaven to their adversaries five splendid men on horses with bridles of gold, and two of them, leading on the Jews,

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2 Maccabees 10:1

"Then Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city."

2 Maccabees 10:2

"They pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the foreigners, and also the sacred enclosures."

2 Maccabees 10:3

"Having cleansed the sanctuary, they made another altar of sacrifice. Striking flint and starting a fire, they offered sacrifices after they had ceased for two years, burned incense, lit lamps, and set out the show bread."

2 Maccabees 10:4

"When they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if they ever did sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen."

2 Maccabees 10:5

"Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by foreigners, upon that very day it came to pass that the sanctuary was cleansed, even on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which is Chislev."

2 Maccabees 10:6

"They observed eight days with gladness in the manner of the feast of tabernacles, remembering how not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves like wild animals."

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