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2 Maccabees 2:12-14
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 2:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 Solomon celebrated the feast in the same way for a period of eight days.
13 Judas Reconstructs the Library of Israel. In addition to these things, it is also set forth in the records and in the memoirs of Nehemiah[a] how he founded a library to house the chronicles of the kings, the writings of the prophets and David, and the letters of the kings in regard to sacred offerings. 14 Similarly, Judas[b] has also collected for us all of the books that had been scattered during the recent war, and these are now in our possession.
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- 2 Maccabees 2:13 Memoirs of Nehemiah: these are not contained in the biblical Book of Nehemiah and are regarded as a lost apocryphal work. Although there is no record that Nehemiah founded a library, the Pentateuch was canonized in his time, and he may have collected the Books of Kings.
- 2 Maccabees 2:14 Judas Maccabeus may have collected . . . all of the books remaining after the destruction during the reign of Antiochus IV (see 1 Mac 1:56f).
