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2 Maccabees 12:1 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" So when this agreement had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their farming. "

2 Maccabees 12:1

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1 So when this agreement had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.

2 But some of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, and also Hieronymus and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace.

3 Men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews who lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them.

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2 Maccabees 13:26

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"Lysias came forward to speak, made the best defense that was possible, persuaded, pacified, gained their good will, and departed to Antioch. This was the issue of the attack and departure of the king."

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1 Maccabees 3:32

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"He left Lysias, an honorable man, and one of royal lineage, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt,"

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2 Maccabees 10:11

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"For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia."

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1 Maccabees 3:34

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"He delivered to Lysias half of his forces and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem,"

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Acts 28:29

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"When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves."

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Jeremiah 40:12

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"then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits."

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2 Maccabees 12:2

"But some of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, and also Hieronymus and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace."

2 Maccabees 12:3

"Men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews who lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them."

2 Maccabees 12:4

"When the Jews, relying on the public vote of the city, accepted the invitation, as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned not less than two hundred of them."

2 Maccabees 12:5

"When Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him"

2 Maccabees 12:6

"and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the harbor on fire at night, burned the boats, and put to the sword those who had fled there."

2 Maccabees 12:7

"But when the town gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa."

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