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2 Maccabees 10:7-9
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 10:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 And so, carrying wands entwined with ivy, and leafy branches and palm fronds, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him whose guiding hand had enabled them to achieve the purification of his holy place. 8 They also decreed by a public edict, ratified by vote, that the whole Jewish nation should observe these days every year.
The Acquisition of Religious Freedom[a]
The War against Lysias, Minister of Antiochus V
The Threat to Peace. 9 Such were the circumstances surrounding the death of Antiochus who was called Epiphanes.
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- 2 Maccabees 10:9 A new persecutor comes forth. He is defeated, however, because he threatened the temple. And the people of God celebrate the victory. It is the second part of the Book and takes up the same schema as the first.
