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We shall be celebrating the purification of the temple on the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev, so we thought it right to inform you, that you too may celebrate the feast of Booths and of the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the rebuilder of the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
Many years later, when it so pleased God, Nehemiah, commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
When they informed us that they could not find any fire, but only muddy water, he ordered them to scoop some out and bring it. After the material for the sacrifices had been prepared, Nehemiah ordered the priests to sprinkle with the water the wood and what lay on it. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)
While the sacrifice was being burned, the priests recited a prayer, and all present joined in with them, Jonathan leading and the rest responding with Nehemiah. (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
After the sacrifice was burned, Nehemiah ordered the rest of the liquid to be poured upon large stones. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
When the event became known and the king of the Persians was told that, in the very place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, a liquid was found with which Nehemiah and his people had burned the sacrifices, (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
Nehemiah and his companions called the liquid nephthar, meaning purification, but most people named it naphtha. (2 Maccabees 1, 36)
Besides these things, it is also told in the records and in Nehemiah's Memoirs how he collected the books about the kings, the writings of the prophets and of David, and the royal letters about sacred offerings. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
All this, which Jason of Cyrene set forth in detail in five volumes, we will try to condense into a single book. (2 Maccabees 2, 23)
Now I beg those who read this book not to be disheartened by these misfortunes, but to consider that these chastisements were meant not for the ruin but for the correction of our nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
(There was also Eleazar.) After reading to them from the holy book and giving them the watchword, "The Help of God," he himself took charge of the first division and joined in battle with Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
All this is true of the book of the Most High's covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 22)
