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2 Maccabees 11:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Concerning this, I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those who are sent from me, to confer with you. "

2 Maccabees 11:20

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18 Whatever things therefore needed to be brought before the king I declared to him, and what things were possible he allowed.

19 If then you will all preserve your good will toward the government, I will also endeavor in the future to contribute to your good.

20 Concerning this, I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those who are sent from me, to confer with you.

21 Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the twenty-fourth day of the month Dioscorinthius.”

22 And the king’s letter contained these words: “King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greetings.

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2 Maccabees 11:1

"Now after a very little time, Lysias, the king’s guardian, kinsman, and chancellor, being very displeased about the things that had happened,"

2 Maccabees 11:2

"collected about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews, planning to make the city a home for Greeks,"

2 Maccabees 11:3

"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."

2 Maccabees 11:4

"He took no account of God’s power, but was puffed up with his ten thousands of infantry, his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants."

2 Maccabees 11:5

"Coming into Judea and approaching Bethsuron, which was a strong place and about five stadia away from Jerusalem, he pressed it hard."

2 Maccabees 11:6

"When Maccabaeus and his men learned that he was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people with lamentations and tears made supplication to the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel."

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