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2 Maccabees 2:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, with the kingdom, the priesthood, and the consecration, "

2 Maccabees 2:17

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15 If therefore you have need of them, send some people to bring them to you.

16 Seeing then that we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. You will therefore do well if you celebrate the days.

17 Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, with the kingdom, the priesthood, and the consecration,

18 even as he promised through the law—in God have we hope, that he will soon have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of everywhere under heaven into his holy place; for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place.

19 Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the greatest temple, the dedication of the altar,

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2 Maccabees 2:1

"It is also found in the records that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take some of the fire, as has been mentioned,"

2 Maccabees 2:2

"and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord or be led astray in their minds when they saw images of gold and silver, and their adornment."

2 Maccabees 2:3

"With other such words he exhorted them, that the law should not depart from their hearts."

2 Maccabees 2:4

"It was in the writing that the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, when he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and saw God’s inheritance."

2 Maccabees 2:5

"Jeremiah came and found a cave, he brought the tabernacle, the ark, and the altar of incense into it; then he sealed the entrance."

2 Maccabees 2:6

"Some of those who followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it."

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