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2 Maccabees 4:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" So Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites "

2 Maccabees 4:26

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24 But he being commended to the king, and having been glorified by the display of his authority, secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

25 After receiving the royal mandates, he returned bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage animal.

26 So Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites

27 Menelaus had possession of the office, but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing was regularly paid, even though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it—

28 for his job was the gathering of the revenues—so they were both called by the king to his presence.

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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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