0 2 Machabees : Injustice

The women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth. 3:19

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2 Machabees : Injustice (13)

  1. The priests despised the temple and neglected their animal sacrifices, and began to play games and exercise with the discus. They liked the Greek glories the best. But God will punish them for their wickedness. 4:14-17
  2. These things happened to us to correct us as a nation. We are being punished for our sins. 6:12-13
  3. Antiochus prayed to God for mercy. And said he would become a Jew himself, and go throughout the earth declaring the power of God. But God ignored his prayer and he died a miserable death. 9:13-28
  4. Those who were with Simon were bribed by some of the people in the towers and let some of them escape. When Judas heard about it, he called them traitors and killed them. 10:20-21
  5. Then Timotheus tried to take Judea by force. But Judas Machabeus his men prayed to God, sprinkled dirt on their heads, and girded their loins with haircloth. They prostrated themselves at the foot of the altar and asked God to become the enemy of their enemies (as the law says). 10:24-26
  6. The people of Casphin provoked Judas by blaspheming. So Judas took the city with by God's will, and made an unspeakable slaughter of its inhabitants, so that a pool two furlongs wide formed from the blood of the victims. 12:14-16
  7. Judas killed 30,000 men for their profanities. 12:22
  8. Then Judas collected the bodies of his soldiers who had died in battle, Â and he found the tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which if forbidden to the Jews. And so they plainly saw that this was the reason they had died in battle. 12:39-40
  9. Judas told his soldiers not to sin, or they would be killed like the idol-wearing soldiers. 12:42
  10. God inspired Antiochus to put Menelaus to death by throwing him off a 50-cubit high tower. So that's what they did. And he deserved it for offending God. 13:4-8
  11. Judas prayed to God, saying, "Once you sent an angel who killed 185,000 soldiers in Sennacherib's army. Send that angel again for us now. So that the blasphemers will be afraid of us." 15:21-24
  12. Judas commanded that Nicanor's head, hand, and right shoulder be cut off, and carried to Jerusalem. 15:30
  13. When Judas arrived, he showed the people the head and hand of Nicanor. Then he commanded that the tongue be cut out of Nicanor's head, and be fed in pieces to the birds, and hung up the hand the temple wall. Then he hung up Nicanor's head on the top of the castle, so it could be a manifest sign of the help of God. 15:32-35

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