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2 Maccabees 9:25 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and, moreover, observing how the princes who are along the borders and neighbors to my kingdom watch for opportunities and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often entrusted and commended to most of you when I was hurrying to the upper provinces. I have written to him what is written below. "

2 Maccabees 9:25

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23 But considering that my father also, at the time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,

24 to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, the people in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled,

25 and, moreover, observing how the princes who are along the borders and neighbors to my kingdom watch for opportunities and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often entrusted and commended to most of you when I was hurrying to the upper provinces. I have written to him what is written below.

26 I therefore urge you and beg you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve your present good will, each of you, toward me and my son.

27 For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with moderation and kindness.

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2 Maccabees 11:22

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"of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination I may have something to write."

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2 Maccabees 9:1

"Now about that time, Antiochus retreated in disorder from the region of Persia."

2 Maccabees 9:2

"For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he attempted to rob a temple and to control the city. Therefore the multitudes rushed in and the people of the country turned to defend themselves with weapons; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke his camp with disgrace."

2 Maccabees 9:3

"While he was at Ecbatana, news was brought to him about what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus."

2 Maccabees 9:4

"Being overcome by his anger, he planned to make the Jews suffer for the evil deeds of those who had put him to flight. Therefore, with judgment from heaven even now accompanying him, he ordered his charioteer to drive without ceasing until he completed the journey; for he arrogantly said this: “I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews when I come there.”"

2 Maccabees 9:5

"But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a fatal and invisible stroke. As soon as he had finished speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, with bitter torments of the inner parts—"

2 Maccabees 9:6

"and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings."

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