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2 Maccabees 13:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 13:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Additionally, they had a Greek force consisting of one hundred and ten thousand foot soldiers, five thousand three hundred horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.[a]
3 Menelaus also joined them, and with considerable hypocrisy, he kept urging Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare, but in the belief that he would thereby become established in office. 4 However, the King of kings[b] stirred up the fury of Antiochus against this scoundrel, and when Lysias offered convincing evidence to the king that Menelaus was to blame for all the trouble, Antiochus ordered him to be taken to Beroea and executed there in the customary local manner.
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- 2 Maccabees 13:2 Chariots armed with scythes: special chariots of war, equipped with sharp scythes featuring teeth of iron that were in use especially among the Persians.
- 2 Maccabees 13:4 King of kings: a new title in the Bible (which was taken from the title of the Persian kings) to indicate the absolute sovereignty of God even over the powerful of this world (see Deut 10:17; 1 Tim 6:15; Rev 17:14; 19:16). Beroea is the Greek name for Aleppo in Syria.
