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2 Maccabees 10:32 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of great strength, where Chaereas was in command. "

2 Maccabees 10:32

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30 and taking Maccabaeus in the midst of them, and covering him with their own armor, guarded him from wounds, while they shot arrows and thunderbolts at the enemies. For this reason, they were blinded and thrown into confusion, and were cut to pieces, filled with bewilderment.

31 Twenty thousand five hundred were slain, beside six hundred cavalry.

32 Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of great strength, where Chaereas was in command.

33 Then Maccabaeus and his men were glad and laid siege to the fortress for four days.

34 Those who were within, trusting in the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and hurled out impious words.

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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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