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2 Maccabees 11:1-2
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 11:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 11
Lysias Must Deal with the Jews.[a] 1 Very soon after that, Lysias, the guardian and kinsman of the king, who was in charge of the government, became greatly angered at what had occurred. 2 He mustered about eighty thousand foot soldiers and all of his cavalry and advanced against the Jews. His intent was to make Jerusalem a settlement for Greeks,
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- 2 Maccabees 11:1 Once again, the author confuses the date and exaggerates the numbers. In his accounts of war, a heavenly apparition symbolizes the help that Judas and his men receive from God. Lysias’s flight evokes that of Nicanor (2 Mac 8:35). These ways of proceeding are deliberate.
