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2 Maccabees 8:31 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most strategic positions, and they carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem. "

2 Maccabees 8:31

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29 When they had accomplished these things and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.

30 Having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of exceedingly high strongholds, and divided very much plunder, giving the maimed, orphans, widows, and the aged an equal share with themselves.

31 When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most strategic positions, and they carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem.

32 They killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much harm.

33 As they celebrated the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set the sacred gates on fire, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a little house. So they received the proper reward for their impiety.

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1 Maccabees 1:35

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2 Maccabees 8:1

"But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way secretly into the villages, called together their kindred. Enlisting those who had continued in the Jews’ religion, they gathered together about six thousand."

2 Maccabees 8:2

"They called upon the Lord to look at the people who were oppressed by all, and to have compassion on the sanctuary that had been profaned by the ungodly men,"

2 Maccabees 8:3

"and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to listen to the blood that cried out to him,"

2 Maccabees 8:4

"and to remember the lawless destruction of the innocent infants, and concerning the blasphemies that had been committed against his name, and to show his hatred of wickedness."

2 Maccabees 8:5

"When Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy."

2 Maccabees 8:6

"Coming without warning, he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies,"

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