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And holding up their hands to heaven, they all made entreaty. (2 Maccabees 3, 20)
And see that you, who have been scourged by heaven, report to all men the majestic power of God." Having said this they vanished. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury." (2 Maccabees 3, 39)
When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
and said nobly, "I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again." (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
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)
But you, unholy wretch, you most defiled of all men, do not be elated in vain and puffed up by uncertain hopes, when you raise your hand against the children of heaven. (2 Maccabees 7, 34)
Coming without warning, he would set fire to towns and villages. He captured strategic positions and put to flight not a few of the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
and the time of the battle with the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand in all went into the affair, with four thousand Macedonians; and when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand and took much booty. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house; so these received the proper recompense for their impiety. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
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)
Yet he did not in any way stop his insolence, but was even more filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, and giving orders to hasten the journey. And so it came about that he fell out of his chariot as it was rushing along, and the fall was so hard as to torture every limb of his body. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
