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The king asked Heliodorus who could be sent again to Jerusalem to carry out what he failed to do. Heliodorus answered him, (2 Maccabees 3, 37)
I now ask the readers of this book not to be shocked by these calamities. Bear in mind that this did not happen for the destruction of our race, but rather for our education. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
When the first had left the world in this way, they brought the second for execution. After stripping the skin with the hair from his head, they asked him: "Which do you prefer: to eat the flesh of a pig or to be tortured limb by limb?" (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
After this, they punished the third. He stuck his tongue out when asked to, bravely stretched forth his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
After being asked twice by the king, she agreed to persuade her son. (2 Maccabees 7, 26)
I ask you now, my son, that when you see the heavens, the earth and all that is in it, you know that God made all this from nothing, and the human race as well. (2 Maccabees 7, 28)
and they asked that he not forget the unjust killing of innocent children and show his indignation against those who had insulted his Name. (2 Maccabees 8, 4)
Still others sold everything they owned and asked God to deliver from the impious Nicanor those who had been sold even before any battle. (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
Having done this, they asked the Merciful Lord during a public prayer to be fully reconciled with his servants. (2 Maccabees 8, 29)
I ask you, then, to take into account the favors each and everyone of you has received from me and maintain the same kindness toward me and my son. (2 Maccabees 9, 26)
Having done all this they threw themselves flat on the ground and asked the Lord not to send them such calamities anymore. But if they should sin again, they asked that he would correct them with gentleness and not hand them over again into the hands of blasphemous and ferocious foreigners. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
The men of Maccabeus, after praying and asking the Lord to come and fight at their side, attacked the fortresses of the Idumeans. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
