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2 Maccabees 11:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" You will therefore do well to send messengers to them and give them the right hand of friendship, that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.” "

2 Maccabees 11:26

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24 we, having heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s purpose to turn them to the customs of the Greeks, but choose rather their own way of living, and make request that the customs of their law be allowed to them—

25 choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from disturbance, we determine that their temple is to be restored to them, and that they live according to the customs that were in the days of their ancestors.

26 You will therefore do well to send messengers to them and give them the right hand of friendship, that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.”

27 And to the nation, the king’s letter was as follows: “King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greetings.

28 If you are all well, it is as we desire. We ourselves also are in good health.

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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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