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Everyone blessed the intervention of the Lord, the just Judge who brings to light the most secret deeds; (2 Maccabees 12, 41)
and they prayed to the Lord to completely pardon the sin of their dead companions. The valiant Judas urged his men to shun such sin in the future, for they had just seen with their own eyes what had happened to those who sinned. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
He took up a collection among his soldiers which amounted to two thousand pieces of silver and sent it to Jerusalem to be offered there as a sacrifice for sin. They did all this very well and rightly inspired by their belief in the resurrection of the dead. (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
If they did not believe that their fallen companions would rise again, then it would have been a useless and foolish thing to pray for them. (2 Maccabees 12, 44)
In the year one hundred and fortynine, the men of Judas learned that Antiochus Eupator had come against Judea with countless troops, (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
together with Lysias, his tutor who was head of the government. Each of them was in command of a Greek army of one hundred and ten thousand infantrymen, five thousand and three hundred horsemen, twenty-two elephants and about three hundred chariots of war with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)
Menelaus joined them, and incited Antiochus with every evil intent since he was not seeking the freedom of his country but only hoping that he would be restored to the office of High Priest. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
There is a tower in that place, twenty-five meters high, full of burning ashes, provided with a revolving device on top, which sloped on all sides into ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Whoever robbed any sacred thing or committed any other notorious crime was brought up to the tower, and then, pushed into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
This was indeed a just punishment for him who had committed so many offenses against the Altar whose fire and ashes were sacred; and so, he met his death in ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
The king came with a heart full of evil designs, prepared to be more cruel to the Jews, than his father had been. (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
When Judas learned of this, he ordered his army to call on God day and night, so that as God had done in other circumstances, he would now also help those (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
