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2 Maccabees 1:34
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When the emperor investigated the matter and found out that this was true, he had the area fenced off and made into a shrine.
2 Maccabees 1:35
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It became a substantial source of income for him, and he used the money for gifts to anyone who was in his good favor.
2 Maccabees 2:17
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God has saved all his people and has restored to all of us our holy land, the kingship, the priesthood, and the Temple services,
2 Maccabees 3:7
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When Apollonius met with the king, he told him about the money, and the king ordered Heliodorus, his chief minister, to get it for him.
2 Maccabees 3:14
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So he set a day and went into the Temple to supervise the counting of the money. This caused an uproar throughout the entire city.
2 Maccabees 3:26
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Heliodorus also saw two unusually strong and handsome young men, wearing very fine clothes. They stood on either side of him and beat him unmercifully.
2 Maccabees 4:26
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So Jason, who had cheated his own brother out of the office of High Priest, was now forced to flee to the land of Ammon.
2 Maccabees 4:30
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Meanwhile, there was a revolt in the Cilician cities of Tarsus and Mallus, because the king had given those cities to Antiochis, his mistress.
2 Maccabees 4:49
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Some of the people of Tyre, however, showed their disgust with this crime and their respect for these men by giving them a splendid funeral.
2 Maccabees 5:14
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Three days later Jerusalem had lost 80,000 people: 40,000 killed in the attack and at least that many taken away to be sold as slaves.
2 Maccabees 5:19
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But the Lord did not choose his people for the sake of his Temple; he established his Temple for the sake of his people.
2 Maccabees 5:22
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He appointed governors to cause trouble for the people. In Jerusalem he placed Philip, a man from Phrygia who was more evil than Antiochus himself.
2 Maccabees 6:1
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Not long after that, the king sent an elderly Athenian to force the Jews to abandon their religion and the customs of their ancestors.
2 Maccabees 6:6
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It was impossible to observe the Sabbath, to celebrate any of the traditional festivals, or even so much as to admit to being a Jew.
2 Maccabees 6:31
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So Eleazar died. But his courageous death was remembered as a glorious example, not only by young people, but by the entire nation as well.
2 Maccabees 7:1
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On another occasion a Jewish mother and her seven sons were arrested. The king was having them beaten to force them to eat pork.
2 Maccabees 7:34
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But you are the cruelest and most disgusting thing that ever lived. So don't fool yourself with illusions of greatness while you punish God's people.
2 Maccabees 7:38
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May my brothers and I be the last to suffer the anger of Almighty God, which he has justly brought upon our entire nation."
2 Maccabees 8:2
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They begged the Lord to help his people, now trampled under foot by all nations, to take pity on the Temple, now defiled by pagans,
2 Maccabees 8:10
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King Antiochus owed the Romans 150,000 pounds of silver; Nicanor planned to pay off the debt by selling Jewish prisoners of war as slaves.