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2 Maccabees 14:39 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bore against the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to seize him; "

2 Maccabees 14:39

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37 Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, who was a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will.

38 For in the former times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of following the Jews’ religion, and had risked body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews.

39 Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bore against the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to seize him;

40 for he thought by seizing him to inflict an injury on them.

41 But when the troops were at the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and asked for fire to burn the doors, he, being surrounded on every side, fell upon his sword,

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2 Maccabees 14:1

"Three years later, news was brought to Judas and his company that Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having sailed into the harbor of Tripolis with a mighty army and a fleet,"

2 Maccabees 14:2

"had taken possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias."

2 Maccabees 14:3

"But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,"

2 Maccabees 14:4

"came to King Demetrius in about the one hundred fifty-first year, presenting to him a crown of gold and a palm, and beside these some of the festal olive boughs of the temple. For that day, he held his peace;"

2 Maccabees 14:5

"but having gotten opportunity to further his own madness, being called by Demetrius into a meeting of his council, and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they intended, he answered:"

2 Maccabees 14:6

"“Those of the Jews called Hasidaeans, whose leader is Judas Maccabaeus, keep up war and are seditious, not allowing the kingdom to find tranquillity."

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