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2 Maccabees 10:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

2 Maccabees 10:8

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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.

7 Therefore carrying wands wreathed with leaves, and beautiful branches, and palm fronds also, they offered up hymns of thanksgiving to him who had successfully brought to pass the cleansing of his own place.

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

9 Such were the events of the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.

10 Now we will declare what came to pass under Antiochus Eupator, who proved himself a son of that ungodly man, and will summarize the main evils of the wars.

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1 Maccabees 7:49

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

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Esther 9:27

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"Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, upon their offspring, and upon those who were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently; but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, city, family, and province."

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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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Ezra 3:4

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"They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;"

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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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2 Maccabees 11:3

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"and to levy tribute on the temple, as on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year."

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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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