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2 Maccabees 5:1-3
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 5:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 5
Jason Dies Wretchedly in Exile. 1 About this time, Antiochus undertook his second expedition[a] against Egypt. 2 It then happened that all over the city, for almost forty days, there were apparitions of horsemen clad in gold galloping through the air, companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords— 3 squadrons of cavalry in battle order, charges and counter-charges in this direction and that, with brandished shields, massed spears, and hurled javelins, and gold accoutrements and armor of all kinds glittering brightly.
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- 2 Maccabees 5:1 Second expedition: the author does not mention the first expedition against Egypt by Antiochus in 169 B.C. (1 Mac 1:16-20) and seems to regard the coming of the Seleucid army into Palestine in 171 B.C. (2 Mac 4:21f) as the first expedition. He apparently combines the first pillage of Jerusalem in 169 B.C. after Antiochus’s first expedition against Egypt (1 Mac 1:20-28; see 2 Mac 5:5ff) with the second pillage of the city two years later (167 B.C.) following the king’s second expedition against Egypt in 168 B.C. (1 Mac 1:29-35; see 2 Mac 5:24ff).
