Verse 7
2 Maccabees 1:7
Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
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In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have already written unto you in the tribulation and in the extremity that hath come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּהְי֣וּ דְבָרָ֔י/ו עִ֚ם יוֹאָ֣ב בֶּן צְרוּיָ֔ה וְ/עִ֖ם אֶבְיָתָ֣ר הַ/כֹּהֵ֑ן וַֽ/יַּעְזְר֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י אֲדֹנִיָּֽה
English Translation
And the words of Joab the son of Zeruiah and of Abiathar the priest were with Adonijah, and they helped him.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE MACCABEES..
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THE brethren, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and they that are in the country of Judaea, send greeti...
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and may God (Elohim) do good unto you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, h...
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and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;
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and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,
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and hearken to your supplications, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.
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In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have already writt...
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and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we besought the Lord, and were heard; and we...
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And now see that ye keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.
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Written in the hundred fourscore and eighth year. THEY that are in Jerusalem and they that are in J...
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Having been saved by God (Elohim) out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him g...
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For himself cast forth into Persia them that arrayed themselves against us in the holy city.
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For when the prince was come there, and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut t...
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For Antiochus, on the pretence that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his Friends that...
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And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set the treasures forth, and he was come there with a sm...
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and opening the secret door of the panelled cieling, they threw stones and struck down the prince, a...
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Blessed be our God (Elohim) in all things, who gave for a prey them that had committed impiety.
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Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the five a...
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For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that...
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Now after many years, when it pleased God (Elohim), Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king...
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he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring to him: and when the sacrifices had been offered on...
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And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clo...
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And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all others, J...
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And the prayer was after this manner: O Lord, Lord God (Elohim), the Creator of all things, who art...
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who alone suppliest every need, who alone art righteous and almighty and eternal, thou that savest...
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accept the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and guard thine own portion, and consecrate it.
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Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty them that are in bondage among the heathen, look upon...
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Torment them that oppress us and in arrogancy shamefully entreat us.
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Plant thy people in thy holy place, even as Moses said.
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And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded to pour on great stones the wate...
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And when this was done, a flame was kindled; but when the light from the altar shone over against it...
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And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where...
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then the king, inclosing the place, made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.
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And when the king would shew favour to any, he would take from them many presents and give them som...
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And Nehemiah and they that were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cle...
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