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2 Maccabees 4:35 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For this reason not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man. "

2 Maccabees 4:35

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33 When Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.

34 Therefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus aside, asked him to kill Onias. Coming to Onias, and being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, Andronicus gave him his right hand with oaths and, though he was suspicious, persuaded him to come out of the sanctuary. Then, with no regard for justice, he immediately put him to death.

35 For this reason not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.

36 And when the king had come back from the places in Cilicia, the Jews who were in the city appealed to him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.

37 Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him who was dead.

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2 Maccabees 5:23

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"Some malcontents out of Israel, men who were transgressors of the law, gathered together against him to complain against him; but the king paid no attention to them."

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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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