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2 Maccabees 8:32-34
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 8:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 They put to death the commander of Timothy’s forces, a most wicked man who had inflicted great suffering on the Jews. 33 During the victory celebrations in their ancestral city, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, including Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a tiny house. Thus he received due recompense for his sacrilegious deeds.
34 Flight and Testimony of Nicanor.[a] The accursed Nicanor, who villainously had brought along a thousand merchants to buy the Jewish captives,
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- 2 Maccabees 8:34 Nicanor’s defeat bore testimony to the fact that God was with the Jews—as long as they obeyed his law.
