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'It was also recorded how Solomon in his wisdom offered the sacrifice of the dedication and completion of the sanctuary. (2 Maccabees 2, 9)
As Moses had prayed to the Lord and fire had come down from heaven and burned up the sacrifice, so Solomon also prayed, and the fire from above consumed the burnt offerings. (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
Solomon similarly observed the eight-day festival. (2 Maccabees 2, 12)
Heliodorus offered sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to the preserver of his life, and then took courteous leave of Onias and marched his forces back to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
He then ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy everyone they encountered, and to butcher all who took refuge in their houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
There were eighty thousand victims in the course of those three days, forty thousand dying by violence and as many again being sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to live disgraced, walked of his own accord to the torture of the wheel, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
The rest sold all their remaining possessions, at the same time praying the Lord to deliver them from the godless Nicanor, who had sold them even in advance of any encounter- (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
When Maccabaeus was told what had happened, he summoned the people's commanders and accused the offenders of having sold their brothers for money by releasing their enemies to fight them. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
mustered about eighty thousand foot soldiers and his entire cavalry and advanced against the Jews, intending to make the city a place for Greeks to live in, (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Maccabaeus himself was the first to take up his weapons, and he urged the rest to risk their lives with him in support of their brothers; so they sallied out resolutely, as one man. (2 Maccabees 11, 7)
