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2 Maccabees 11:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

2 Maccabees 11:6

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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.

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

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.

7 Maccabaeus himself took up weapons first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly.

8 As they were there, close to Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head in white apparel, brandishing weapons of gold.

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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 11:7

"Maccabaeus himself took up weapons first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly."

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