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2 Maccabees 4:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When the king had assented, and Jason had taken possession of the office, he immediately shifted those of his own race to the Greek way of life. "
2 Maccabees 4:10
Verse in Context
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8 having promised to the king at an audience three hundred sixty talents of silver, and out of another fund eighty talents.
9 In addition to this, he undertook to assign one hundred fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a gymnasium and a body of youths to be trained in it, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
10 When the king had assented, and Jason had taken possession of the office, he immediately shifted those of his own race to the Greek way of life.
11 Setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to the Romans to establish friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful ways of living, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law.
12 For he eagerly established a gymnasium under the citadel itself, and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat.
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2 Maccabees 4:1
"The previously mentioned Simon, who had given information about the money against his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of these evils."
2 Maccabees 4:2
"He dared to call him a conspirator against the state who was actually the benefactor of the city, the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws."
2 Maccabees 4:3
"When his hatred grew so great that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s approved agents,"
2 Maccabees 4:4
"Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,"
2 Maccabees 4:5
"appealed to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow citizens, but looking to the good of all the people, both public and private;"
2 Maccabees 4:6
"for he saw that without the king’s involvement it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness."
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