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2 Maccabees 12:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But calling upon the Sovereign who with might shatters the strength of the enemy, they took the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were in it. "

2 Maccabees 12:28

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26 Then Judas, marching against Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed twenty-five thousand people.

27 After he had put these to flight and destroyed them, he marched against Ephron also, a strong city, wherein were multitudes of people of all nations. Stalwart young men placed on the walls made a vigorous defense. There were great stores of war engines and darts there.

28 But calling upon the Sovereign who with might shatters the strength of the enemy, they took the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were in it.

29 Setting out from there, they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is six hundred furlongs away from Jerusalem.

30 But when the Jews who were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kind treatment of them in the times of their misfortune,

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2 Maccabees 5:26

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"He put to the sword all those who came out to the spectacle. Running into the city with the armed men, he killed great multitudes."

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2 Maccabees 10:17

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"Assaulting them vigorously, they took control of the positions, and kept off all who fought upon the wall, and killed those whom they encountered, killing no fewer than twenty thousand."

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1 Maccabees 11:45

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"The people of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of one hundred and twenty thousand men, and they wanted to kill the king."

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1 Maccabees 9:67

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2 Kings 25:19

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"and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city."

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1 Samuel 5:9

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"It was so, that after they had carried it there, the LORD’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them."

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2 Maccabees 12:1

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

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."

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