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2 Maccabees 3:30 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

2 Maccabees 3:30

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28 and carried him—this man who had just now entered with a great retinue and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.

29 So, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,

30 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.

31 But quickly some of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High to grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.

32 The high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the recovery of the man.

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2 Maccabees 3:1

"When the holy city was inhabited with unbroken peace and the laws were kept very well because of the godliness of Onias the high priest and his hatred of wickedness,"

2 Maccabees 3:2

"it came to pass that even the kings themselves honored the place and glorified the temple with the noblest presents,"

2 Maccabees 3:3

"so that even King Seleucus of Asia bore all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices out of his own revenues."

2 Maccabees 3:4

"But a man named Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, disagreed with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city."

2 Maccabees 3:5

"When he couldn’t overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia."

2 Maccabees 3:6

"He brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power."

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