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God, who has saved his whole people, conferring heritage, kingdom, priesthood and sanctification on all of us, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
People rushed headlong from the houses, intent on making public supplication because of the indignity threatening the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
It was pitiful to see the people crowding together to prostrate themselves, and the foreboding of the high priest in his deep anguish. (2 Maccabees 3, 21)
went to see the king, not to play the accuser of his fellow-citizens, but having the public and private welfare of the entire people at heart. (2 Maccabees 4, 5)
But all this brought its own retribution; the very people whose way of life they envied, whom they sought to resemble in everything, proved to be their enemies and executioners. (2 Maccabees 4, 16)
While all this was going on, it happened that the people of Tarsus and Mallus revolted, because their towns had been given as a present to Antiochis, the king's concubine. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
The result was that not only Jews but many people of other nationalities were appalled and outraged by the unjust murder of this man. (2 Maccabees 4, 35)
The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the holy place, but the holy place for the sake of the people; (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befell the people, in due course also shared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign was placated it was reinstated in all its glory. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
all those who came out to watch he put to the sword; then, rushing into the city with his armed troops, he cut down an immense number of people. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
The advent of these evils was painfully hard for all the people to bear. (2 Maccabees 6, 3)
People were driven by harsh compulsion to take part in the monthly ritual meal commemorating the king's birthday; and when a feast of Dionysus occurred, they were forced to wear ivy wreaths and walk in the Dionysiac procession. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
