Verse 17
2 Maccabees 6:17
Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
17
Howbeit let this that we have spoken suffice to put you in remembrance; but after these few words we must come to the narrative.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֥ים בָּ/אַמָּ֖ה הָיָ֣ה הַ/בָּ֑יִת ה֖וּא הַ/הֵיכָ֥ל לִ/פְנָֽ/י
English Translation
And forty cubits was the house; it was the temple before.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 6 Context
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And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from t...
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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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