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2 Maccabees 12:31 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well disposed toward the race for the future. Then they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close at hand. "

2 Maccabees 12:31

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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,

31 they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well disposed toward the race for the future. Then they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close at hand.

32 But after the feast called Pentecost, they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea.

33 He came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry.

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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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