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2 Maccabees 6:10 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall. "

2 Maccabees 6:10

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8 A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices,

9 and that they should kill those who didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see.

10 For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall.

11 Others who had run together into the caves nearby to keep the seventh day secretly, were betrayed to Philip and were all burned together, because their piety kept them from defending themselves, in view of the honor of that most solemn day.

12 I urge those who read this book to not be discouraged because of the calamities, but recognize that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.

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1 Maccabees 1:61

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"They hung their babies around their necks, and their houses, and those who had circumcised them."

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1 Maccabees 1:48

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"Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains."

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2 Maccabees 3:19

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"The women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets. The virgins who were kept indoors ran together, some to the gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows."

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Wisdom 18:5

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"After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones, and when a single child had been abandoned and saved to convict them of their sin, you took away from them their multitude of children, and destroyed all their army together in a mighty flood."

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2 Maccabees 6:1

"Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God,"

2 Maccabees 6:2

"and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did."

2 Maccabees 6:3

"The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous."

2 Maccabees 6:4

"For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate."

2 Maccabees 6:5

"The altar was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws."

2 Maccabees 6:6

"A man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of their ancestors, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew."

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