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Great thanks we owe to God, that from the extreme of peril has delivered us; ay, though we had such a king for our adversary, (2 Maccabees 1, 11)
Years passed, and God’s will was that Nehemias should come back, holding the Persian king’s warrant. Nehemias it was that had search made for the fire, and by the grandsons of those very priests that hid it; but they made report, fire they could find none, only a puddle of water.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
to prayer fell Nehemias, and this was the manner of his praying: Lord God, that all things madest, the terrible, the strong, the just, the merciful, King gracious as none else; (2 Maccabees 1, 24)
The news travelled, till the Persian king himself was told how water appeared where exiled priests had hidden the fire, how, with this water, Nehemias and his company had bathed the sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
then, divinely, the secret shall be made manifest. Then once again the Lord’s majesty shall be seen, and the cloud that enshrines it; the same vision that was granted to Moses, and to Solomon when he prayed that the great God would have his temple on earth; (2 Maccabees 2, 8)
Solomon, the master of wisdom, that in his wisdom offered sacrifice to hallow the temple he had made. (2 Maccabees 2, 9)
Prayed Moses, prayed Solomon, and fire came down from heaven to consume the burnt-sacrifice. … (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
… No other mind had king Solomon, that for eight days would continue his dedication feast.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 12)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
In those days, king and chieftain held the place much in reverence, and with rich gifts endowed the temple; (2 Maccabees 3, 2)
did not Seleucus, king of Asia, defray all the cost of maintaining its sacrifices? (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
and gave him great news indeed; here was the treasury at Jerusalem stocked with treasures innumerable, here was vast public wealth, unclaimed by the needs of the altar, and nothing prevented but it should fall into the king’s hands. (2 Maccabees 3, 6)
