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we have aimed to please those who wish to read, to make it easy for those who are inclined to memorize, and to profit all readers. (2 Maccabees 2, 25)
Heliodorus at once set out on his journey, ostensibly to make a tour of inspection of the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to carry out the king's purpose. (2 Maccabees 3, 8)
People also hurried out of their houses in crowds to make a general supplication because the holy place was about to be brought into contempt. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws -- a fact which later events will make clear. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
At the suggestion of Ptolemy a decree was issued to the neighboring Greek cities, that they should adopt the same policy toward the Jews and make them partake of the sacrifices, (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
Antiochus felt that he was being treated with contempt, and he was suspicious of her reproachful tone. The youngest brother being still alive, Antiochus not only appealed to him in words, but promised with oaths that he would make him rich and enviable if he would turn from the ways of his fathers, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being. (2 Maccabees 7, 28)
I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our fathers, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by afflictions and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God, (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
Nicanor determined to make up for the king the tribute due to the Romans, two thousand talents, by selling the captured Jews into slavery. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
that the holy city, which he was hastening to level to the ground and to make a cemetery, he was now declaring to be free; (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
and the Jews, whom he had not considered worth burying but had planned to throw out with their children to the beasts, for the birds to pick, he would make, all of them, equal to citizens of Athens; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
