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2 Maccabees 2:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, freed the city, and restored the laws which were about to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became gracious to them with all kindness. "

2 Maccabees 2:22

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20 and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and Eupator his son,

21 and the manifestations that came from heaven to those who fought with one another in brave deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they seized the whole country, chased the barbarous multitudes,

22 recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, freed the city, and restored the laws which were about to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became gracious to them with all kindness.

23 These things which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will attempt to abridge in one book.

24 For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter,

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2 Maccabees 10:1

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"Then Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city."

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2 Maccabees 3:30

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"they blessed the Lord who acted marvelously for his own place. The temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared."

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1 Maccabees 6:7

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"and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem, and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and also Bethsura, his city."

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Judith 5:18

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"But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many severe battles, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs. The temple of their God was razed to the ground, and their cities were taken by their adversaries."

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1 Maccabees 14:36

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"In his days, things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away out of their country, and they also who were in the city of David, those who were in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a citadel, out of which they used to go, and polluted everything around the sanctuary, and did great damage to its purity."

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Luke 24:52

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"They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,"

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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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