2 Maccabees 2:18-20

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¹⁸ as he promised through the law. We have hope in God that he will soon have mercy on us and will gather us from everywhere under heaven into his holy place, for he has rescued us from great evils and has purified the place.^(A)

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¹⁹ The story of Judas Maccabeus and his brothers, and the purification of the greatest temple, and the dedication of the altar,^{(B) 20} and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and his son Eupator,^(C)