Verse 14
2 Maccabees 6:14
Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
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For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord doth with longsuffering forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained unto the full measure of their sins; but not so judged he as touching us,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּ֧בֶן שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה אֶת הַ/בַּ֖יִת וַ/יְכַלֵּֽ/הוּ
English Translation
And Solomon built the house and completed it.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of Jupiter Olympius, and...
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But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.
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For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who dallied with harlots, and had...
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and the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the...
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And a man could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as conf...
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And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of...
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And there went out a decree to the neighbouring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that the...
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and that they should slay such as did not choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present miser...
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for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led th...
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And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being bet...
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I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamitie...
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For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but straightway meet with re...
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For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord doth with longsuffering forbear, until that...
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that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, when we be come unto the height of our sins.
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Wherefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us; but though he chasteneth with calamity, yet doth h...
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Howbeit let this that we have spoken suffice to put you in remembrance; but after these few words...
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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countena...
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But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to t...
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coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the nat...
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But they that had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquain...
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that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be...
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But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and...
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For it becometh not our years to dissemble, said he, that through this many of the young should su...
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and so they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, shou...
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For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escap...
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Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will shew myself worthy of mine old age,
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and leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the r...
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And when they changed the good will they bare him a little before into ill will, because these words...
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and when he was at the point to die with the stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that h...
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So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memori...
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