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2 Maccabees 11:33 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.” "
2 Maccabees 11:33
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31 that the Jews use their own foods and observe their own laws, even as formerly. None of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been done in ignorance.
32 Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you.
33 Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.”
34 The Romans also sent to them a letter in these words: “Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings.
35 In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent.
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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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