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\v 1 And in \f + \fr 14:1 \ft circa B.C. 141. \f* the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon.
\v 2 And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
\v 3 and he went and struck the army of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces; and he put him in ward.
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\v 4 And the land had rest all the days of Simon: and he sought the good of his nation; and and his authority and his glory was well-pleasing to them all his days.
\v 5 And amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea;
\v 6 and he enlarged the borders of his nation, and got possession of the country;
\v 7 and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.
\v 8 And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
\v 9 The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
\v 10 He provided food for the cities, and furnished them with \f + \fr 14:10 \ft Gr. \fqa implements of munition. \f* all manner of munition, until the name of his glory was named to the end of the earth.
\v 11 He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:
\v 12 and they sat each man under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to make them afraid:
\v 13 and there ceased in the land any that fought against them: and the kings were discomfited in those days.
\v 14 And he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out, and every lawless and wicked person he took away.
\v 15 He glorified the sanctuary, and the vessels of the temple he multiplied.
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\v 16 And it was heard at Rome that Jonathan was dead, and even to Sparta, and they were exceedingly sorry.
\v 17 But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein,
\v 18 they wrote to him on tables of brass, to renew with him the friendship and the confederacy which they had confirmed with Judas and Jonathan his kindred;
\v 19 and they were read before the congregation at Jerusalem.
\v 20 And this is the copy of the letters which the Spartans sent:
\p The rulers of the Spartans, and the city, to Simon the high priest, and to the elders, and the priests, and the residue of the people of the Jews, our kindred, greeting:
\v 21 The ambassadors that were sent to our people made report to us of your glory and honor: and we were glad for their coming,
\v 22 and we did register the things that were spoken by them in the \f + \fr 14:22 \ft Gr. \fqa counsels of the people. \f* public records after this manner: Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came to us to renew the friendship they had with us.
\v 23 And it pleased the people to entertain the men honorably, and to put the copy of their words in the \f + \fr 14:23 \ft Gr. \fqa books that are appointed for the people. \f* public records, to the end that the people of the Spartans might have a memorial thereof: moreover they wrote a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.
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\v 24 After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight, in order to confirm the confederacy with them.
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\v 25 But when the people heard these things, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?
\v 26 for he and his kindred and the house of his father have made themselves strong, and have chased away in fight the enemies of Israel from them, and confirmed liberty to \f + \fr 14:26 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* Israel.
\v 27 And they wrote on tables of brass, and set them upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing:
\p On the eighteenth day of Elul, in \f + \fr 14:27 \ft circa B.C. 141. \f* the hundred and seventy and second year, and this is the third year of Simon the high priest,
\v 28 \f + \fr 14:28 \ft Perhaps a Hebrew title of Simon underlies these words. \f* in Asaramel, in a great congregation of priests and people and princes of the nation, and of the elders of the country, \f + \fr 14:28 \ft Gr. \fqa he made known. \f* was it notified to us:
\v 29 Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, but Simon the son of Mattathias, the son of the sons of Joarib, and his kindred, put themselves in jeopardy, and withstood the enemies of their nation, that their sanctuary and the law might be established, and glorified their nation with great glory:
\v 30 and Jonathan assembled their nation together, and became their high priest, and was gathered to his people:
\v 31 and their enemies purposed to invade their country, that they might destroy their country utterly, and stretch forth their hands against their sanctuary:
\v 32 then rose up Simon, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation, and gave them wages:
\v 33 and he fortified the cities of Judea, and Bethsura that lies upon the borders of Judea, where the arms of the enemies were aforetime, and set there a garrison of Jews:
\v 34 and he fortified Joppa which is upon the sea, and Gazara which is upon the borders of Azotus, wherein the enemies lived aforetime, and placed Jews there, and set therein all things convenient for their restoration:
\v 35 and the people saw the \f + \fr 14:35 \ft Some authorities read \fqa acts. \f* faith of Simon, and the glory which he thought to bring to his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and the faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people:
\v 36 and in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David, those who were in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a citadel, out of which they issued, and polluted all things round about the sanctuary, and did great hurt to its purity;
\v 37 and he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and made high the walls of Jerusalem:
\v 38 and king Demetrius confirmed to him the high priesthood according to these things,
\v 39 and made him one of his \f + \fr 14:39 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, and honored him with great honor;
\v 40 for he had heard say, that the Jews had been called by the Romans friends and allies and kindred, and that they had met the ambassadors of Simon honorably;
\v 41 and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;
\v 42 and that he should be captain over them, and should take charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the country, and over the arms, and over the strongholds; and that he should take charge of the sanctuary,
\v 43 and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all instruments in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and wear gold;
\v 44 and that it should not be lawful for any of the people or of the priests to set at nothing any of these things, or to gainsay the words that he should speak, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;
\v 45 but whoever should do otherwise, or set at nothing any of these things, he should be liable to punishment.
\v 46 All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words;
\v 47 and Simon accepted this, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and \f + \fr 14:47 \ft Gr. \fqa ethnarch. \f* governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all.
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\v 48 And they commanded to put this writing on tables of brass, and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
\v 49 and moreover to put the copies thereof in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.


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\v 1 And Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest and \f + \fr 15:1 \ft Gr. \fqa ethnarch. \f* governor of the Jews, and to all the nation;
\v 2 and the contents thereof were after this manner:
\p King Antiochus to Simon the chief priest and \f + \fr 15:2 \ft Gr. \fqa ethnarch. \f* governor, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:
\v 3 Forasmuch as certain pestilent fellows have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, but my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as it was before; and moreover I have raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared ships of war;
\v 4 moreover I am minded to land in the country, that I may punish those who have destroyed our country, and those who have made many cities in the kingdom desolate:
\v 5 Now therefore I confirm to you all the exactions which the kings that were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you:
\v 6 and I give you leave to coin money for your country with your own stamp,
\v 7 but that Jerusalem and the sanctuary should be free: and all the arms that you have prepared, and the strongholds that you have built, which you have in your possession, let them remain to you:
\v 8 and everything owing to the king, and the things that shall be owing to the king from henceforth and for evermore, let them be remitted to you:
\v 9 moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.
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\v 10 In \f + \fr 15:10 \ft circa B.C. 139 \f* the hundred and seventy and fourth year went Antiochus forth into the land of his fathers; and all the forces came together to him, so that there were few men with Tryphon.
\v 11 And king Antiochus pursued him, and \f + \fr 15:11 \ft Or, \fqa he came to Dor, fleeing by the way which is by the sea \f* he came, as he fled, to Dor, which is by the sea:
\v 12 for he knew that troubles were come upon him all at once, and that his forces had forsaken him.
\v 13 And Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horse.
\v 14 And he compassed the city round about, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea; and he vexed the city by land and sea, and suffered no man to go out or in.
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\v 15 And Numenius and his company came from Rome, having letters to the kings and to the countries, wherein were written these things:
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\v 16 Lucius, consul of the Romans, to king Ptolemy, greeting:
\v 17 The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and allies, to renew the old friendship and confederacy, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:
\v 18 moreover they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.
\v 19 It pleased us therefore to write to the kings and to the countries, that they should not seek their hurt, nor fight against them, and their cities, and their country, nor be allies with such as fight against them.
\v 20 Moreover it seemed good to us to receive the shield of them.
\v 21 If therefore any pestilent fellows have fled from their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may take vengeance on them according to their law.
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\v 22 And the same things wrote he to Demetrius the king, and to Attalus, and to Arathes, and to Arsaces,
\v 23 and to all the countries, and to \f + \fr 15:23 \ft Some authorities read \fqa Sampsaces: \ft the Latin versions have \fqa Lampsacus. \f* Sampsames, and to the Spartans, and to Delos, and to Myndos, and to Sicyon, and to Caria, and to Samos, and to Pamphylia, and to Lycia, and to Halicarnassus, and to Rhodes, and to Phaselis, and to Cos, and to Side, and to Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.
\v 24 But they wrote this copy to Simon the high priest.
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\v 25 But Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, bringing his forces up to it continually, and making engines of war, and he shut up Tryphon from going in or out.
\v 26 And Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to fight on his side; and silver, and gold, and instruments of war in abundance.
\v 27 And he would not receive them, but set at nothing all the covenants which he had made with him aforetime, and was estranged from him.
\v 28 And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his \f + \fr 15:28 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, to commune with him, saying,
\p You° hold possession of Joppa and Gazara, and the citadel that is in Jerusalem, cities of my kingdom.
\v 29 The borders thereof you° have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places in my kingdom.
\v 30 Now therefore deliver up the cities which you° have taken, and the tributes of the places whereof you° have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea:
\v 31 or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that you° have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: or else we will come and subdue you.
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\v 32 And Athenobius the king’s \f + \fr 15:32 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friend came to Jerusalem; and he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver vessels, and his great attendance, and he was amazed; and he reported to him the king’s words.
\v 33 And Simon answered, and said to him,
\p We have neither taken other men’s land, nor have we possession of that which appertains to others, but of the inheritance of our fathers; however, it was had in possession of our enemies wrongfully for a certain time.
\v 34 But we, having opportunity, hold fast the inheritance of our fathers.
\v 35 But as touching Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm among the people throughout our country, we will give a hundred talents for them.
\p And he answered him not a word,
\v 36 but returned in a rage to the king, and reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen: and the king was exceedingly angry.
\v 37 But Tryphon embarked on board a ship, and fled to Orthosia.
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\v 38 And the king appointed Cendebaeus chief captain of the sea coast, and gave him forces of foot and horse:
\v 39 and he commanded him to encamp before Judea, and he commanded him to build up Kidron, and to fortify the gates, and that he should fight against the people: but the king pursued Tryphon.
\v 40 And Cendebaeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people captive, and to kill them.
\v 41 And he built Kidron, and set horsemen there, and forces of foot, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, according as the king commanded him.


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\v 1 And John went up from Gazara, and told Simon his father what Cendebaeus was doing.
\v 2 And Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, I and my kindred and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we should deliver Israel oftentimes.
\v 3 But now I am old, and you° moreover, by \add his \add* mercy, are of a sufficient age: be you° instead of me and my brother, and go forth and fight for our nation; but let the help which is from heaven be with you.
\v 4 And he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and horsemen, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin.
\v 5 And rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army came to meet them, of footmen and horsemen: and there was a brook between them.
\v 6 And he encamped near them, he and his people: and he saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first, and the men saw him, and passed over after him.
\v 7 And he divided the people, and \add set \add* the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the enemies’ horsemen were exceedingly many.
\v 8 And they sounded with the trumpets; and Cendebaeus and his army were put to the rout, and there fell of them many wounded to death, but those who were left fled to the stronghold:
\v 9 at that time was Judas John’s brother wounded: but John pursued after them, till he came to Kidron, which \add Cendebaeus \add* had built;
\v 10 and they fled to the towers that are in the fields of Azotus; and he burned it with fire; and there fell of them about two thousand men. And he returned into Judea in peace.
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\v 11 And Ptolemy the son of Abubus had been appointed captain for the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold;
\v 12 for he was the high priest’s son in law.
\v 13 And his heart was lifted up, and he was minded to make himself master of the country, and he took counsel deceitfully against Simon and his sons, to make away with them.
\v 14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; and he went down to Jericho, himself and Mattathias and Judas his sons, in \f + \fr 16:14 \ft circa B.C. 136. \f* the hundred and seventy and seventh year, in the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat:
\v 15 and the son of Abubus received them deceitfully into the little stronghold that is called Dok, which he had built, and made them a great banquet, and hid men there.
\v 16 And when Simon and his sons had drunk freely, Ptolemy and his men rose up, and took their arms, and came in upon Simon into the banqueting place, and killed him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants.
\v 17 And he committed a great iniquity, and recompensed evil for good.
\v 18 And Ptolemy wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him forces to aid him, and should deliver him their country and the cities.
\v 19 And he sent others to Gazara to make away with John: and to the captains of thousands he sent letters to come to him, that he might give them silver and gold and gifts.
\v 20 And others he sent to take possession of Jerusalem, and the mount of the temple.
\v 21 And one ran before to Gazara, and told John that his father and kindred were perished, and he has sent to kill you also.
\v 22 And when he heard, he was sore amazed; and he laid hands on the men that came to destroy him, and killed them; for he perceived that they were seeking to destroy him.
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\v 23 And the rest of the acts of John, and of his wars, and of his valiant deeds which he did, and of the building of the walls which he built, and of his doings,
\v 24 behold, they are written in the \f + \fr 16:24 \ft Gr. \fqa book of days. \f* chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father.


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\v 1 In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem; and he lived at Modin.
\v 2 And he had five sons, \f + \fr 2:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Joannes. \f* John, who was surnamed Gaddis;
\v 3 Simon, who was called Thassi;
\v 4 Judas, who was called Maccabaeus;
\v 5 Eleazar, who was called Avaran; Jonathan, who was called Apphus.
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\v 6 And he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem,
\v 7 and he said,
\p Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see the destruction of my people, and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of aliens?
\v 8 Her temple is become as a man \f + \fr 2:8 \ft Some authorities read \fqa inglorious. \f* that was glorious:
\v 9 her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
\v 10 What nation has not inherited her palaces, and gotten possession of her spoils?
\v 11 her adorning is all taken away; instead of a free woman she is become a bond woman:
\v 12 and, behold, our holy things and our beauty and our glory are laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned them.
\v 13 Wherefore should we live any longer?
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\v 14 And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly.
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\v 15 And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice.
\v 16 And many of Israel came to them, and Mattathias and his sons were gathered together.
\v 17 And the king’s officers answered and spoke to Mattathias, saying, You are a ruler and an honorable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and kindred:
\v 18 now therefore come you first and do the commandment of the king, as all the nations have done, and the men of Judah, and those who remain in Jerusalem: and you and your house shall be in the number of the king’s \f + \fr 2:18 \ft See 1 Maccabees 3:38; 10:10, etc.; Compare 1 Maccabees 10:65; 11:27; 2 Maccabees 8:9. \f* Friends, and you and your sons shall be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.
\v 19 And Mattathias answered and said with a loud voice, If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion listen to him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments,
\v 20 yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers.
\v 21 \f + \fr 2:21 \ft Gr. \fqa May he be propitious. \ft Compare 2 Samuel 23:17 (Septuagint). \f* Heaven forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
\v 22 We will not listen to the king’s words, to go aside from our worship, on the right hand, or on the left.
\v 23 And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.
\v 24 And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.
\v 25 And the king’s officer, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and pulled down the altar.
\v 26 And he was zealous for the law, even as Phinehas did to Zimri the son of Salu.
\v 27 And Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintains the covenant, let him come forth after me.
\v 28 And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city.
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\v 29 Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there,
\v 30 they, and their sons, and their wives, and their cattle; because evils were multiplied upon them.
\v 31 And it was told the king’s officers, and the forces that were in Jerusalem, the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness;
\v 32 and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day.
\v 33 And they said to them, Thus far. Come forth, and do according to the word of the king, and you° shall live.
\v 34 And they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.
\v 35 And they hurried to give them battle.
\v 36 And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
\v 37 saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you° put us to death without trial.
\v 38 And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand \f + \fr 2:38 \ft Gr. \fqa souls of men. \f* souls.
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\v 39 And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.
\v 40 And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.
\v 41 And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let’s fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.
\v 42 Then were gathered together to them a company of \f + \fr 2:42 \ft That is, \fqa Chasidim. \f* Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.
\v 43 And all those who fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them.
\v 44 And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.
\v 45 And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars;
\v 46 and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.
\v 47 And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand.
\v 48 And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither \f + \fr 2:48 \ft Gr. \fqa gave they a horn to the sinner. \f* suffered they the sinner to triumph.
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\v 49 And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons,
\p Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.
\v 50 And now, my children, be you° zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
\v 51 And call to remembrance the deeds of our fathers which they did in their generations; and receive great glory and an everlasting name.
\v 52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness?
\v 53 Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment, and became lord of Egypt.
\v 54 Phinehas our father, for that he was zealous exceedingly, obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
\v 55 Joshua for fulfilling the word became a judge in Israel.
\v 56 Caleb for bearing witness in the congregation obtained a heritage in the land.
\v 57 David for being merciful inherited the throne of a kingdom forever and ever.
\v 58 Elijah, for that he was exceedingly zealous for the law, was taken up into heaven.
\v 59 Hananiah, Azariah, Mishael, believed, and were saved out of the flame.
\v 60 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.
\v 61 And thus consider you° from generation to generation, that none that put their trust in him shall lack for strength.
\v 62 And be not afraid of the words of a sinful man; for his glory shall be dung and worms.
\v 63 To-day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.
\v 64 And you°, my children, be strong, and show yourselves men in behalf of the law; for therein shall you° obtain glory.
\v 65 And, behold, Simon your brother, I know that he is a man of counsel; give ear to him always: he shall be a father to you.
\v 66 And Judas Maccabaeus, he has been strong and mighty from his youth: he shall be your captain, and \f + \fr 2:66 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa you° shall fight. \f* shall fight the battle of the people.
\v 67 And take you° to you all the doers of the law, and avenge the wrong of your people.
\v 68 Render a recompense to the Gentiles, and take heed to the commandments of the law.
\v 69 And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
\v 70 And he died in \f + \fr 2:70 \ft circa B.C. 167. \f* the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.


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\v 1 And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead.
\v 2 And all his kindred helped him, and so did all those who clave to his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel.
\v 3 And he got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword.
\v 4 And he was like a lion in his deeds, and as a lion’s whelp roaring for prey.
\v 5 And he pursued the lawless, seeking them out, and he burned up those that troubled his people.
\v 6 And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.
\v 7 And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever.
\v 8 And he went about among the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly \f + \fr 3:8 \ft Gr. \fqa out of it. \f* out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel:
\v 9 and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.
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\v 10 And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great army from Samaria, to fight against Israel.
\v 11 And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.
\v 12 And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days.
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\v 13 And Seron, the commander of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war;
\v 14 And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and those who are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king.
\v 15 And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel.
\p
\v 16 And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company.
\v 17 But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.
\v 18 And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with \f + \fr 3:18 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa the God of heaven. \f* heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few:
\v 19 for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of an army; but strength is from heaven.
\v 20 They come to us in fullness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to plunder us:
\v 21 but we fight for our lives and our laws.
\v 22 And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you° not afraid of them.
\p
\v 23 Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him.
\v 24 And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
\p
\v 25 And the fear of Judas and his kindred, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them:
\v 26 and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas.
\p
\v 27 But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceedingly strong army.
\v 28 And he opened his treasury, and gave his forces pay for a year, and commanded them to be ready for every need.
\v 29 And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days;
\v 30 and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him.
\v 31 And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
\v 32 And he left Lysias, an honorable man, and one of the seed royal, to be over the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt,
\v 33 and to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.
\v 34 And he delivered to him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem,
\v 35 that he should send an army against them, to root out and destroy the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from the place;
\v 36 And that he should make strangers to dwell on all their coasts, and should divide their land to them by lot.
\v 37 And the king took the half that remained of the forces, and removed from Antioch, from his royal city, \f + \fr 3:37 \ft circa B.C. 166. \f* the hundred and forty and seventh year; and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the upper countries.
\p
\v 38 And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s \f + \fr 3:38 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends;
\v 39 and with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horse, to go into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king.
\v 40 And they removed with all their army, and came and pitched near to Emmaus in the plain country.
\v 41 And the merchants of the country heard the fame of them, and took silver and gold exceedingly much, with \f + \fr 3:41 \ft Most of the authorities read \fqa servants. \f* fetters, and came into the camp to take the children of Israel for servants: and there were added to them the forces of Syria and of the land of the \f + \fr 3:41 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Philistines.
\p
\v 42 And Judas and his kindred saw that evils were multiplied, and that the forces were encamping in their borders; and they took knowledge of the king’s words which he had commanded, to destroy the people and make an end of them;
\v 43 and they said each man to his neighbor, Let’s raise up the ruin of our people, and let’s fight for our people and the holy place.
\v 44 And the congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask for mercy and compassion.
\v 45 And Jerusalem was without inhabitant as a wilderness, there was none of her offspring that went in or went out; and the sanctuary was trodden down, and the sons of strangers were in the citadel, the Gentiles lodged therein; and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.
\v 46 And they gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh was there a place of prayer aforetime for Israel.
\v 47 And they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and \add put \add* ashes upon their heads, and tore their clothes,
\v 48 and laid open the book of the law, concerning which the Gentiles were wont to inquire, seeking the likenesses of their idols.
\v 49 And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.
\v 50 And they cried aloud toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these men, and where shall we carry them away?
\v 51 And your holy place is trodden down and profaned, and your priests are in heaviness and brought low.
\v 52 And, behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us: you know what things they imagine against us.
\v 53 How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help?
\v 54 And they sounded with the trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.
\p
\v 55 And after this Judas appointed leaders of the people, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
\v 56 And he said to those who were building houses, and were betrothing wives, and were planting vineyards, and were fearful, that they should return, each man to his own house, according to the law.
\v 57 And the army removed, and encamped upon the south side of Emmaus.
\v 58 And Judas said, Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be in readiness against the morning, that you° may fight with these Gentiles, that are assembled together against us to destroy us, and our holy place:
\v 59 for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.
\v 60 Nevertheless, as may be the will in heaven, so shall he do.


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\v 1 And Gorgias took five thousand footmen, and a thousand chosen horse, and the army removed by night,
\v 2 that it might fall upon the army of the Jews and strike them suddenly: and the men of the citadel were his guides.
\v 3 And Judas heard thereof, and removed, he and the valiant men, that he might strike the king’s army which was at Emmaus,
\v 4 while as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.
\v 5 And Gorgias came into the camp of Judas by night, and found no man; and he sought them in the mountains; for he said, These men flee from us.
\v 6 And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: however they had not armor nor swords to their minds.
\v 7 And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong \add and \add* fortified, and horsemen compassing it round about; and these were expert in war.
\v 8 And Judas said to the men that were with him, Fear you° not their multitude, neither be you° afraid of their onset.
\v 9 Remember how our fathers were saved in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.
\v 10 And now let’s cry to heaven, if he will have us, and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this army before our face today:
\v 11 and all the Gentiles shall know that there is one who redeems and saves Israel.
\v 12 And the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming near them:
\v 13 and they went out of the camp to battle. And those who were with Judas sounded their trumpets,
\v 14 and joined battle, and the Gentiles were discomfited, and fled into the plain.
\v 15 But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to \f + \fr 4:15 \ft Gr. \fqa Gazera. \f* Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men.
\v 16 And Judas and his army returned from pursuing after them,
\v 17 and he said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoils, inasmuch as there is a battle before us;
\v 18 and Gorgias and his army are near to us in the mountain. But stand you° now against our enemies, and fight against them, and afterwards take the spoils with boldness.
\v 19 While Judas was yet making an end of these words, there appeared a part of them looking out from the mountain:
\v 20 and they saw that their army had been put to flight, and that the Jews were burning the camp; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done.
\v 21 But when they perceived these things, they were sore afraid; and perceiving also the army of Judas in the plain ready for battle,
\v 22 they fled all of them into the land of the \f + \fr 4:22 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Philistines.
\v 23 And Judas returned to plunder the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches.
\v 24 And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Or, looking up \fqa to heaven \f* to heaven; because \add his mercy \add* is good, because his mercy endures forever.
\v 25 And Israel had a great deliverance that day.
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\v 26 But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened:
\v 27 but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.
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\v 28 And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them.
\v 29 And they came into Idumaea, and encamped at Bethsura; and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
\v 30 And he saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said,
\p Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who did quell the onset of the mighty man by the hand of your servant David, and did deliver the army of the \f + \fr 4:30 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Philistines into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armor bearer:
\v 31 shut up this army in the hand of your people Israel, and let them be ashamed for their army and their horsemen:
\v 32 give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction:
\v 33 cast them down with the sword of those who love you, and let all that know your name praise you with thanksgiving.
\p
\v 34 And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them.
\v 35 But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company.
\p
\v 36 But Judas and his kindred said, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let’s go up to cleanse the holy place, and to dedicate it afresh.
\v 37 And all the army was gathered together, and they went up to mount Sion.
\v 38 And they saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
\v 39 and they tore their clothes, and made great lamentation, and put ashes upon their heads,
\v 40 and fell on their faces to the ground, and \f + \fr 4:40 \ft Compare Numbers 31:6. \f* blew with the \f + \fr 4:40 \ft Gr. \fqa trumpets of signals. \f* solemn trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
\v 41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place.
\p
\v 42 And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law:
\v 43 and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place.
\v 44 And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it:
\v 45 and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar,
\v 46 and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them.
\v 47 And they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar after the fashion of the former;
\v 48 and they built the holy place, and the inner parts of the house; and they hallowed the courts.
\v 49 And they made the holy vessels new, and they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense, and the table, into the temple.
\v 50 And they burned incense upon the altar, and they lighted the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.
\v 51 And they set loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they made.
\p
\v 52 And they rose up early in the morning, on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in \f + \fr 4:52 \ft circa B.C. 165. \f* the hundred and forty and eighth year,
\v 53 and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burned offerings which they had made.
\v 54 At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that \add day \add* was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals.
\v 55 And all the people fell upon their faces, and worshiped, and \f + \fr 4:55 \ft Or, \fqa gave praise, \ft looking up \fqa to heaven, to him which \f* gave praise to heaven, which had given them good success.
\v 56 And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and offered burned offerings with gladness, and sacrificed a sacrifice of deliverance and praise.
\v 57 And they decked the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold and small shields, and dedicated afresh the gates and the priests’ chambers, and made doors for them.
\v 58 And there was exceedingly great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.
\v 59 And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy.
\v 60 And at that season they built up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest perhaps the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime.
\v 61 And he set there a force to keep it, and they fortified Bethsura to keep it; that the people might have a stronghold near Idumaea.


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\v 1 And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceedingly angry.
\v 2 And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy among the people.
\v 3 And Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumaea at Akrabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he struck them with a great slaughter, and brought down their pride, and took their spoils.
\v 4 And he remembered the wickedness of the children of \f + \fr 5:4 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 10:18-23. \f* Baean, who were to the people a snare and a stumbling block, lying in wait for them in the ways.
\v 5 And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein.
\v 6 And he passed over to the children of Ammon, and found a mighty band, and much people, with Timotheus for their leader.
\v 7 And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited before his face; and he struck them,
\v 8 and got possession of Jazer, and the \f + \fr 5:8 \ft Gr. \fqa daughters. \ft Compare Numbers 21:25. \f* villages thereof, and returned again into Judea.
\p
\v 9 And the Gentiles that were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites that were on their borders, to destroy them. And they fled to the stronghold of Dathema,
\v 10 and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, The Gentiles that are round about us are gathered together against us to destroy us:
\v 11 and they are preparing to come and get possession of the stronghold whereunto we are fled for refuge, and Timotheus is the leader of their army.
\v 12 Now therefore come and deliver us from their hand, for many of us are fallen.
\v 13 And all our kindred that were in the land of \f + \fr 5:13 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 12:17. \f* Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men.
\v 14 While the letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes tore, bringing a report after this wise,
\v 15 saying, That there were gathered together against them those of Ptolemais, and of Tyre, and of Sidon, and all Galilee of the \f + \fr 5:15 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Gentiles to consume them.
\v 16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled together a great congregation, to consult what they should do for their kindred, that were in suffering, and were assaulted of them.
\v 17 And Judas said to Simon his brother, Choose you out men, and go and deliver your kindred that are in Galilee, but I and Jonathan my brother will go into the land of Gilead.
\v 18 And he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, as leaders of the people, with the remnant of the army, in Judea, for to keep it.
\v 19 And he gave commandment to them, saying, Take you° the charge of this people, and fight no battle with the Gentiles until that we come again.
\v 20 And to Simon were divided three thousand men to go into Galilee, but to Judas eight thousand men \add to go \add* into the land of Gilead.
\p
\v 21 And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him.
\v 22 And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils.
\v 23 And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judea with great gladness.
\v 24 And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness;
\v 25 and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their kindred in the land of Gilead:
\v 26 and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, \f + \fr 5:26 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 12:13. \f* Casphor, Maked, and \f + \fr 5:26 \ft compare 2 Maccabees 12:21. \f* Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:
\v 27 and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead, and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day.
\v 28 And Judas and his army turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness to Bosora; and he took the city, and killed all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire.
\v 29 And he removed from thence by night, and went till he came to the stronghold.
\v 30 And the morning came, and they lifted up their eyes, and, behold, much people which could not be counted, bearing ladders and engines of war, to take the stronghold; and they were fighting against them.
\v 31 And Judas saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets and a great sound,
\v 32 and he said to the men of his army, Fight this day for your kindred.
\v 33 And he went forth behind them in three companies, and they sounded with their trumpets, and cried out in prayer.
\v 34 And the army of Timotheus perceived that it was Maccabaeus, and they fled from before him: and he struck them with a great slaughter; and there fell of them on that day about eight thousand men.
\v 35 And he turned away to Mizpeh and fought against it, and took it, and killed all the males thereof, and took the spoils thereof, and burned it with fire.
\v 36 From thence he removed, and took \f + \fr 5:36 \ft See 1 Maccabees 5:26 \f* Casphor, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of the land of Gilead.
\p
\v 37 Now after these things Timotheus gathered another army, and encamped near Raphon beyond the brook.
\v 38 And Judas sent men to espy the army; and they brought him word, saying, All the Gentiles that be round about us are gathered together to them, an exceedingly great army.
\v 39 And they have hired Arabians to help them, and are encamping beyond the brook, ready to come against you to battle. And Judas went to meet them.
\v 40 And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:
\v 41 but if he be afraid, and encamp beyond the river, we will cross over to him, and prevail against him.
\v 42 Now when Judas came near to the brook of water, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook, and gave commandment to them, saying, Suffer no man to encamp, but let all come to the battle.
\v 43 And he crossed over the first against them, and all the people after him: and all the Gentiles were discomfited before his face, and cast away their arms, and fled to the temple at \f + \fr 5:43 \ft See 1 Maccabees 5:26. \f* Carnaim.
\v 44 And they took the city, and burned the temple with fire, together with all that were therein. And Carnaim was subdued, neither could they stand any longer before the face of Judas.
\p
\v 45 And Judas gathered together all Israel, those who were in the land of Gilead, from the least to the greatest, and their wives, and their children, and their stuff, an exceedingly great army, that they might come into the land of Judah.
\v 46 And they came as far as Ephron, and this same city was great, \add and it was \add* in the way as they should go, exceedingly strong: they could not turn away from it on the right hand or on the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.
\v 47 And they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
\v 48 And Judas sent to them with words of peace, saying, We will pass through your land to go into our own land, and none shall do you any hurt, we will only pass by on our feet. And they would not open to him.
\v 49 And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was.
\v 50 And the men of the army encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands;
\v 51 and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain.
\v 52 And they went over Jordan into the great plain near Bethshan.
\v 53 And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah.
\v 54 And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace.
\p
\v 55 And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
\v 56 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the army, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done;
\v 57 and they said, Let’s also get us a name, and let’s go fight against the Gentiles that are around us.
\v 58 And they gave charge to the men of the army that was with them, and went toward Jamnia.
\v 59 And Gorgias and his men came out of the city to meet them in battle.
\v 60 And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.
\v 61 And there was a great overthrow among the people, because they didn’t listen to Judas and his kindred, thinking to do some exploit.
\v 62 But they were not of the seed of those men, by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel.
\p
\v 63 And the man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of;
\v 64 and men gathered together to them, acclaiming them.
\p
\v 65 And Judas and his kindred went forth, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south; and he struck Hebron and the \f + \fr 5:65 \ft Gr. \fqa daughters. \ft Compare Numbers 21:25. \f* villages thereof, and pulled down the strongholds thereof, and burned the towers thereof round about.
\v 66 And he removed to go into the land of the \f + \fr 5:66 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Philistines, and he went through \f + \fr 5:66 \ft Or, \fqa Marisa \ft See Josephus, Antiquities 12:8. 6, and 2 Maccabees 12:35. \f* Samaria.
\v 67 In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as \f + \fr 5:67 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa they. \f* he went out to battle unadvisedly.
\v 68 And Judas turned toward Azotus, to the land of the \f + \fr 5:68 \ft Gr. \fqa strangers. \f* Philistines, and pulled down their altars, and burned the carved images of their gods with fire, and took the plunder of their cities, and returned into the land of Judah.


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\v 1 And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold;
\v 2 and that the temple which was in it was rich exceedingly, and that therein were golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Greeks, left behind there.
\v 3 And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city,
\v 4 and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.
\p
\v 5 And there came one bringing him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judah, had been put to flight;
\v 6 and that Lysias went first with a strong army, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;
\v 7 and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem; and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and Bethsura, his city.
\v 8 And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
\v 9 And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.
\v 10 And he called for all his \f + \fr 6:10 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.
\v 11 And I said in my heart, To what suffering am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.
\v 12 But now I remember the evils which I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of silver and gold that were therein, and sent forth to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without a cause.
\v 13 I perceive that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
\v 14 And he called for Philip, one of his \f + \fr 6:14 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, and set him over all his kingdom,
\v 15 and gave him his diadem, and his robe, and his signet ring, to the end he should bring Antiochus his son, and nourish him up that he might be king.
\v 16 And king Antiochus died there in \f + \fr 6:16 \ft Circa B.C. 164. \f* the hundred and forty and ninth year.
\v 17 And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.
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\v 18 And those who were in the citadel shut up Israel round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the Gentiles.
\v 19 And Judas thought to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them.
\v 20 And they were gathered together, and besieged them in \f + \fr 6:20 \ft circa B.C. 163. \f* the hundred and fifties year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war.
\v 21 And there came forth some of those who were shut up, and there were joined to them certain ungodly men of Israel.
\v 22 And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred?
\v 23 We were willing to serve your father, and to walk after his words, and to follow his commandments;
\v 24 and for this cause the children of our people besieged \f + \fr 6:24 \ft Gr. \fqa it. \f* the citadel, and were alienated from us; but as many of us as they could light on they killed, and plundered our inheritances.
\v 25 And not against us only did they stretch out their hand, but also against all their borders.
\v 26 And, behold, they are encamped this day against the citadel at Jerusalem, to take it: and the sanctuary and Bethsura have they fortified.
\v 27 And if you° are not beforehand with them quickly, they will do greater things than these, and you shall not be able to control them.
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\v 28 And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his \f + \fr 6:28 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, \add even the \add* rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse.
\v 29 And there came to him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
\v 30 And the number of his forces was a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants trained for war.
\v 31 And they went through Idumaea, and encamped against Bethsura, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war; and they \add of Bethsura \add* came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
\v 32 And Judas removed from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharias, near the king’s camp.
\v 33 And the king rose early in the morning, and removed his army \f + \fr 6:33 \ft Or, \fqa itself eager for the fight \f* at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias, and his forces made them ready to battle, and sounded with the trumpets.
\v 34 And they showed the elephants the blood of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle.
\v 35 And they divided the beasts among the phalanxes, and they set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail, and helmets of brass on their heads; and for each beast were appointed five hundred chosen horsemen.
\v 36 These were ready beforehand, wherever the beast was; and wherever the beast went, they went with him; they departed not from him.
\v 37 And towers of wood were upon them, strong \add and \add* covered, one upon each beast, girded fast upon him with cunning contrivances; and upon each \add beast \add* were two and thirty valiant men that fought upon them, beside his Indian
\v 38 (and the residue of the horsemen he set on this side and that side at the two parts of the army), striking terror \add into the enemy, \add* and protected by the phalanxes.
\v 39 Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains shone therewith, and blazed like torches of fire.
\v 40 And a part of the king’s army was spread upon the high mountains, and some on the low ground, and they went on firmly and in order.
\v 41 And all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the multitude, and the rattling of the arms, did quake: for the army was exceedingly great and strong.
\v 42 And Judas and his army drew near for battle, and there fell of the king’s army six hundred men.
\v 43 And Eleazar, who was \add called \add* Avaran, saw one of the beasts armed with royal breastplates, and he was higher than all the beasts, and the king seemed to be upon him;
\v 44 and he gave himself to deliver his people, and to get him an everlasting name;
\v 45 and he ran upon him courageously into the midst of the phalanx, and killed on the right hand and on the left, and they parted asunder from him on this side and on that.
\v 46 And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and \add the elephant \add* fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.
\v 47 And they saw the strength of the kingdom, and the fierce onset of the army, and turned away from them.
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\v 48 But they of the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king encamped toward Judea, and toward mount Sion.
\v 49 And he made peace with them of Bethsura; and he came out of the city, because they had no food there to endure the siege, because it was a Sabbath to the land.
\v 50 And the king took Bethsura, and appointed a garrison there to keep it.
\v 51 And he encamped against the sanctuary many days; and set there mounds to shoot from, and engines of war, and instruments for casting fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings.
\v 52 And they also made engines against their engines, and fought for many days.
\v 53 But there were no food in the sanctuary, because it was the seventh year, and those who fled for safety into Judea from among the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the store;
\v 54 and there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine prevailed against them, and they were scattered, each man to his own place.
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\v 55 And Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he was yet alive, appointed to nourish up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,
\v 56 was returned from Persia and Media, and with him the forces that went with the king, and that he was seeking to take to him the government.
\v 57 And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
\v 58 now therefore let’s give the right hand to these men, and make peace with them and with all their nation,
\v 59 and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things.
\v 60 And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and he sent to them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.
\v 61 And the king and the princes sware to them: thereupon they came forth from the stronghold.
\v 62 And the king entered into mount Sion; and he saw the strength of the place, and set at nothing the oath which he had sworn, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
\v 63 And he removed in haste, and returned to Antioch, and found Philip master of the city; and he fought against him, and took the city by force.


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\v 1 In \f + \fr 7:1 \ft circa B.C. 162. \f* the hundred and one and fifties year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there.
\v 2 And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him.
\v 3 And the thing was known to him, and he said, show me not their faces.
\v 4 And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom.
\v 5 And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest;
\v 6 and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his kindred have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land.
\v 7 Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, and \add how \add* he has punished them and all that helped them.
\v 8 And the king chose Bacchides, one of the king’s \f + \fr 7:8 \ft See 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Friends, who was ruler in the country beyond the river, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king.
\v 9 And he sent him, and that ungodly Alcimus, and made sure to him the high priesthood, and he commanded him to take vengeance upon the children of Israel.
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\v 10 And they removed, and came with a great army into the land of Judah, and he sent messengers to Judas and his kindred with words of peace deceitfully.
\v 11 And they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great army.
\v 12 And there were gathered together to Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to seek for justice.
\v 13 And the \f + \fr 7:13 \ft That is, Chasidim. \f* Hasidaeans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them;
\v 14 for they said, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with the forces, and he will do us no wrong.
\v 15 And he spoke with them words of peace, and sware to them, saying, We will seek the hurt neither of you nor your friends.
\v 16 And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which \add the psalmist \add* wrote,
\q1
\v 17 \f + \fr 7:17 \ft Psalm 79:2, 3. \f* The flesh of your saints \add did they cast out, \add*
\q1 And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem;
\q1 And there was no man to bury them.
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\v 18 And the fear and the dread of them fell upon all the people, for they said, There is neither truth nor judgement in them; for they have broken the covenant and the oath which they sware.
\v 19 And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, \add and cast them \add* into the great pit.
\v 20 And he made sure the country to Alcimus, and left with him a force to aid him; and Bacchides went away to the king.
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\v 21 And Alcimus strove for his high priesthood.
\v 22 And there were gathered to him all those who troubled their people, and they got the mastery of the land of Judah, and did great hurt in Israel.
\v 23 And Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the children of Israel, \add even \add* above the Gentiles,
\v 24 and he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him, and they were restrained from going forth into the country.
\v 25 But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them.
\p
\v 26 \f + \fr 7:26 \ft See 2 Maccabees 14:12. \f* And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honorable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people.
\v 27 And Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great army; and he sent to Judas and his kindred deceitfully with words of peace, saying,
\v 28 Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see your faces in peace.
\v 29 And he came to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. And the enemies were ready to take away Judas by violence.
\v 30 And the thing was known to Judas, \add to wit, \add* that he came to him with deceit, and he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.
\v 31 And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered; and he went out to meet Judas in battle beside Capharsalama;
\v 32 and there fell of Nicanor’s side about \f + \fr 7:32 \ft Some ancient authorities read \fqa five thousand. \f* five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David.
\p
\v 33 And after these things Nicanor went up to mount Sion: and there came some of the priests out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to show him the whole burned sacrifice that was being offered for the king.
\v 34 And he mocked them, and laughed at them, and \f + \fr 7:34 \ft Gr. \fqa polluted them. \f* entreated them shamefully, and spoke haughtily,
\v 35 and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage.
\v 36 And the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple; and they wept, and said,
\v 37 You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people:
\v 38 take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.
\p
\v 39 And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the army of Syria.
\v 40 And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed and said,
\v 41 When those who came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck among them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand.
\v 42 Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness.
\v 43 And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.
\v 44 Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled.
\v 45 And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to \f + \fr 7:45 \ft Gr. \fqa Gazera. \f* Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the \f + \fr 7:45 \ft Gr. \fqa trumpets of signals. \f* solemn trumpets.
\v 46 And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and \f + \fr 7:46 \ft Gr. \fqa outflanked them. \f* closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.
\v 47 And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and \f + \fr 7:47 \ft Gr. \fqa stretched them out. \f* hanged them up beside Jerusalem.
\v 48 And the people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.
\v 49 And \f + \fr 7:49 \ft See 2 Maccabees 15:36. \f* they ordained to keep this day year by year, \add to wit, \add* the thirteenth day of Adar.
\v 50 And the land of Judah had rest \f + \fr 7:50 \ft Gr. \fqa a few days. \f* a little while.


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\v 1 And Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are valiant men, and have pleasure in all that join themselves to them, and make friends with all such as come to them,
\v 2 and that they are valiant men. And they told him of their wars and exploits which they do among the Gauls, and how that they conquered them, and brought them under tribute;
\v 3 and what things they did in the land of Spain, that they might become masters of the mines of silver and gold which were there;
\v 4 and how that by their policy and persistence they conquered all the place (and the place was exceedingly far from them), and the kings that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and struck them very sore; and how the rest give them tribute year by year:
\v 5 and Philip, and Perseus, king of Chittim, and those who lifted up themselves against them, did they discomfit in battle, and conquered them:
\v 6 Antiochus also, the great king of Asia, who came against them to battle, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horse, and chariots, and an exceedingly great army, and he was discomfited by them,
\v 7 and they took him alive, and appointed that both he and such as reigned after him should give them a great tribute, and should give hostages, and a parcel \add of land, to wit, \add*
\v 8 the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes:
\v 9 and how they of Greece took counsel to come and destroy them;
\v 10 and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day:
\v 11 and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants;
\v 12 but with their friends and such as relied upon them they stayed friends; and they conquered the kingdoms that were near and those that were far off, and all that heard of their fame were afraid of them:
\v 13 moreover, whoever they will to help and to make kings, these do they make kings; and whoever they will, do they depose; and they are exalted exceedingly:
\v 14 and for all this none of them did ever put on a diadem, neither did they clothe themselves with purple, to be magnified by it:
\v 15 and how they had made for themselves a senate house, and day by day three hundred and twenty men sat in council, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:
\v 16 and how they commit their government to one man year by year, that he should rule over them, and be lord over all their country, and all are obedient to that one, and there is neither envy nor emulation among them.
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\v 17 And Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome, to establish friendship and alliance with them,
\v 18 and that they should take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks did keep Israel in bondage.
\v 19 And they went to Rome (and the way was exceedingly long), and they entered into the senate house, and answered and said,
\v 20 Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, and his kindred, and the people of the Jews, have sent us to you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your allies and friends.
\p
\v 21 And the thing was well-pleasing in their sight.
\v 22 And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy:
\p
\v 23 Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land forever: the sword also and the enemy be far from them.
\v 24 But if war arise for Rome first, or any of their allies in all their dominion,
\v 25 the nation of the Jews shall help them as allies, as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart:
\v 26 and to those who make war upon them they shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome, and they shall keep their ordinances without taking anything therefore.
\v 27 In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as allies with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them:
\v 28 and to those who are allies \add with their foes \add* there shall not be given food, arms, money, or ships, as it has seemed good to Rome; and they shall keep these ordinances, and that without deceit.
\v 29 According to these words have the Romans made a covenant thus with the people of the Jews.
\v 30 But if hereafter the one party and the other shall take counsel to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their pleasure, and whatever they shall add or take away shall be established.
\v 31 And as touching the evils which king Demetrius does to them, we have written to him, saying, Wherefore have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews?
\v 32 If therefore they plead any more against you, we will do them justice, and fight with you by sea and by land.


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\v 1 And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing \add of his army \add* with them:
\v 2 and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.
\v 3 And the first month of \f + \fr 9:3 \ft circa B.C. 161. \f* the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem:
\v 4 and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse.
\v 5 And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
\v 6 and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.
\v 7 And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.
\v 8 And he said to those who were left, Let’s arise and go up against our adversaries, if perhaps we may be able to fight with them.
\v 9 And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let’s rather save our lives now: let’s return again, \add we \add* and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.
\v 10 And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.
\v 11 And the army removed from the camp, and stood to encounter them, and the horse was parted into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went before the army, and all the mighty men that fought in the front of the battle.
\v 12 But Bacchides was in the right wing; and the phalanx drew near on the two parts, and they blew with their trumpets.
\v 13 And the men of Judas’ side, even they sounded with their trumpets, and the earth shook with the shout of the armies, and the battle was joined, and continued from morning until evening.
\v 14 And Judas saw that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, and there went with him all that were brave in heart,
\v 15 and the right wing was discomfited by them, and he pursued after them to the mount Azotus.
\v 16 And those who were on the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited, and they turned and followed upon the footsteps of Judas and of those that were with him:
\v 17 and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.
\v 18 And Judas fell, and the rest fled.
\v 19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.
\v 20 And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,
\v 21 How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!
\v 22 And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceedingly many.
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\v 23 And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who did iniquity rose up
\v 24 (in those days there was an exceedingly great famine), and the country went over with them.
\v 25 And Bacchides chose out the ungodly men, and made them lords of the country.
\v 26 And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.
\v 27 And there was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.
\v 28 And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan,
\v 29 Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.
\v 30 Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.
\v 31 And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.
\p
\v 32 And Bacchides knew it, and he sought to kill him.
\v 33 And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.
\v 34 And Bacchides knew it on the Sabbath day, and came, he and all his army, over Jordan.
\v 35 And \add Jonathan \add* sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
\v 36 And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
\p
\v 37 But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.
\v 38 And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:
\v 39 and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his kindred, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.
\v 40 And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
\v 41 And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.
\v 42 And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan.
\p
\v 43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great army.
\v 44 And Jonathan said to his company, Let’s stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not \add with us \add* today, as yesterday and the day before.
\v 45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to escape.
\v 46 Now therefore cry to heaven, that you° may be delivered out of the hand of your enemies.
\v 47 And the battle was joined, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, and he turned away back from him.
\v 48 And Jonathan and those who were with him leapt into the Jordan, and swam over to the other side: and they didn’t pass over Jordan against them.
\v 49 And there fell of Bacchides’ company that day about a thousand men;
\v 50 and he returned to Jerusalem. And they built strong cities in Judea, the stronghold that was in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
\v 51 And in them he set a garrison, to vex Israel.
\v 52 And he fortified the city Bethsura, and Gazara, and the citadel, and put forces in them, and store of food.
\v 53 And he took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them in ward in the citadel at Jerusalem.
\p
\v 54 And in \f + \fr 9:54 \ft circa B.C. 160. \f* the hundred and fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary; he pulled down also the works of the prophets;
\v 55 and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.
\v 56 And Alcimus died at that time with great torment.
\v 57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.
\p
\v 58 And all the lawless men took counsel, saying, Behold, Jonathan and they of his part are dwelling at ease, and in security: now therefore we will bring Bacchides, and he shall lay hands on them all in one night.
\v 59 And they went and consulted with him.
\v 60 And he removed, and came with a great army, and sent letters privily to all his allies that were in Judea, that they should lay hands on Jonathan and those that were with him: and they could not, because their counsel was known to them.
\v 61 And \add those who were of Jonathan’s part \add* laid hands on about fifty of the men of the country, that were authors of the wickedness, and he killed them.
\v 62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and those who were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and he built up that which had been pulled down thereof, and they made it strong.
\v 63 And Bacchides knew it, and he gathered together all his multitude, and sent word to those who were of Judea.
\v 64 And he went and encamped against Bethbasi, and fought against it many days, and made engines of war.
\v 65 And Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth into the country, and he went with a few men.
\v 66 And he struck Odomera and his kindred, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.
\v 67 And they began to strike them, and to go up with their forces. And Simon and those who were with him went out of the city, and set on fire the engines of war,
\v 68 and fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore; for his counsel was in vain, and his inroad.
\v 69 And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.
\v 70 And Jonathan had knowledge thereof, and sent ambassadors to him, to the end that they should make peace with him, and that he should restore to them the captives.
\v 71 And he accepted the thing, and did according to his words, and sware to him that he would not seek his hurt all the days of his life.
\v 72 And he restored to him the captives which he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judah, and he returned and departed into his own land, and came not any more into their borders.
\v 73 And the sword ceased from Israel. And Jonathan lived at Michmash; and Jonathan began to judge the people; and he destroyed the ungodly out of Israel.


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\ip \bk The Second Book of the Maccabees\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches.


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\v 1 The kindred, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greeting to the kindred, the Jews that are throughout Egypt, \add and wish them \add* good peace:
\v 2 and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;
\v 3 and give you all a heart to worship him and do his \f + \fr 1:3 \ft Gr. \fqa wills. \f* pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;
\v 4 and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,
\v 5 and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time.
\v 6 And now we here are praying for you.
\v 7 In the reign of Demetrius, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews have \add already \add* written to you in the suffering and in the extremity that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom,
\v 8 and set the \f + \fr 1:8 \ft Or, \fqa porch \f* gate on fire, and shed innocent blood: and we implored the Lord, and were heard; and we offered sacrifice and meal \add offering, \add* and we lighted the lamps, and we set forth the \f + \fr 1:8 \ft Gr. \fqa loaves \f* show bread.
\v 9 And now \add see \add* that you° keep the days of the feast of tabernacles of the month Chislev.
\v 10 \add Written \add* in the hundred fourscore and eighth year.
\b
\p THEY that are in Jerusalem and those who are in Judea and the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, king Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, send greeting and health.
\v 11 Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.
\v 12 For himself cast forth into Persia those who arrayed themselves \add against us \add* in the holy city.
\v 13 For when the prince was come \add there, \add* and the army with him that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests.
\v 14 For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his \f + \fr 1:14 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9 \f* Friends that were with him, that they might take a great part of the treasures in name of a dowry.
\v 15 And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set \f + \fr 1:15 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* the treasures forth, and he was come there with a small company within the wall of the precincts, they shut to the temple when Antiochus was come in:
\v 16 and opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and \f + \fr 1:16 \ft Gr. \fqa struck down as with a thunderbolt. \f* struck down the prince, and they hewed \f + \fr 1:16 \ft Or, his company \f* \add him and his company \add* in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.
\v 17 Blessed \add be \add* our God in all things, who gave \add for a prey \add* those who had committed impiety.
\p
\v 18 Whereas we are now about to keep the purification of the temple in the \add month \add* Chislev, on the five and twentieth day, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that \f + \fr 1:18 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* you° also may keep a feast of tabernacles, and \add a memorial \add* of the fire \add which was given \add* when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar.
\v 19 For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took of the fire of the altar, and hid it privily in the hollow of a well that was without water, wherein they made \add it \add* sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
\v 20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests that hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick water,
\v 21 he commanded them to draw out thereof and bring \add to him: \add* and when \f + \fr 1:21 \ft Gr. \fqa the things of the sacrifices. \ft Similarily in verses 31, 33, and 2 Maccabees 2:10. \f* the sacrifices had been offered \add on the altar, \add* Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with the water both the wood and the things laid thereupon.
\v 22 And when it was done, and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hid with clouds, there was kindled a great blaze, so that all men marveled.
\v 23 And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, both the priests and all \add others, \add* Jonathan leading and the rest answering, as Nehemiah did.
\v 24 And the prayer was after this manner:
\p O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are terrible and strong and righteous and merciful, who alone are King and gracious,
\v 25 who alone supply \add every need, \add* who alone are righteous and almighty and eternal, you that save Israel out of all evil, who made the fathers \add your \add* chosen, and did sanctify them:
\v 26 accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and guard your own portion, and consecrate it.
\v 27 Gather together our Dispersion, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God.
\v 28 Torment those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us.
\v 29 Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.
\p
\v 30 And thereupon the priests sang the hymns.
\v 31 And as soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded \f + \fr 1:31 \ft Some authorities read \fqa that great stones should inclose the water that was left. \ft Both the Greek text and the meaning of this verse and the next are uncertain. \f* to pour \add on \add* great stones the water that was left.
\v 32 And when this was done, a flame was kindled; \f + \fr 1:32 \ft Or, \fqa but it spent itself, whereas the...shone still. \f* but when the light from the altar \f + \fr 1:32 \ft Or, \fqa shone back \f* shone near it, \add all \add* was consumed.
\v 33 And when the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians, that, in the place where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared the water, wherewith also Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice,
\v 34 then the king, inclosing \add the place, \add* made it sacred, after he had proved the matter.
\v 35 And when the king would show favor to any, he would take \add from them \add* many presents and give them some of \add this water. \add*
\v 36 And Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing Nephthar, which is by interpretation, Cleansing; but most men call it Nephthai.


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\v 1 And Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city;
\v 2 and they pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the aliens, and also \add the walls of \add* sacred inclosures.
\v 3 And having cleansed the sanctuary they made another altar of sacrifice; and \f + \fr 10:3 \ft Gr. \fqa firing. \f* striking stones and taking fire out of them, they offered sacrifices, after \add they had ceased for \add* two years, and \add burned \add* incense, and \add lighted \add* lamps, and set forth the show bread.
\v 4 And when they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if ever they should sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen.
\v 5 Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by aliens, upon that very day did it come to pass that the cleansing of the sanctuary was made, even on the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Chislev.
\v 6 And they kept eight days with gladness in the manner \add of the feast \add* of tabernacles, remembering how that \f + \fr 10:6 \ft Or, \fqa not long before they kept the feast of tabernacles by wandering \f* not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves after the manner of wild beasts.
\v 7 Wherefore bearing wands wreathed with leaves, and fair boughs, and palms also, they offered up hymns of thanksgiving to him that had prosperously brought to pass the cleansing of his own place.
\v 8 They ordained also with a common statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should keep these days every year.
\v 9 And \f + \fr 10:9 \ft Gr. \fqa such were the \ft events \fqa of the end \f* such was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.
\v 10 But now will we declare what came to pass under Antiochus \add named \add* \f + \fr 10:10 \ft That is, \fqa son of a good father. \f* Eupator, who proved himself a \add true \add* son of that ungodly man, and will gather up briefly the \f + \fr 10:10 \ft Or, \fqa chief \f* successive evils of the wars.
\v 11 For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias \add to be \add* chancellor, and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
\v 12 For Ptolemy that was called Macron, setting an example of observing justice toward the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, endeavored to \f + \fr 10:12 \ft Or, \fqa settle his relations with \f* conduct his dealings with them on peaceful terms.
\v 13 Whereupon being accused by the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 10:13 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9 \f* Friends before Eupator, and hearing himself called traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had withdrawn himself to Antiochus \add called \add* Epiphanes, and \f + \fr 10:13 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* failing to uphold the honor of his office, he took poison and made away with himself.
\p
\v 14 But Gorgias, when he was made governor of the district, maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept up war with the Jews.
\v 15 And together with him the Idumaeans also, being masters of important strongholds, harassed the Jews; and receiving to them those that had taken refuge \add there \add* from Jerusalem, they assayed to keep up war.
\v 16 But Maccabaeus and his men, having made solemn supplication and implored God to fight on their side, rushed upon the strongholds of the Idumaeans;
\v 17 and assaulting them vigorously they made themselves masters of the positions, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and killed those that fell in their way, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
\v 18 And because no less than nine thousand were fled into two towers exceedingly strong and having all things \add needed \add* for a seige,
\v 19 Maccabaeus, having left Simon and Joseph, and Zacchaeus besides and those who were with him, a force sufficient to besiege them, departed himself to places where he was most needed.
\v 20 But Simon and those who were with him, yielding to covetousness, were bribed by certain of those that were in the towers, and receiving seventy thousand drachmas let some of them slip away.
\v 21 But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the leaders of the people together, and accused \add those men \add* of having sold their kindred for money, by setting their enemies free \add to fight \add* against them.
\v 22 So he killed these men for having turned traitors, and forthwith took possession of the two towers.
\v 23 And prospering with his arms in all things he took in hand, he destroyed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand.
\p
\v 24 Now Timotheus, who had been before defeated by the Jews, having gathered together foreign forces in great multitudes, and having collected the \f + \fr 10:24 \ft Or, \fqa horses \f* horsemen which belonged to Asia, not a few, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.
\v 25 But as he drew near, Maccabaeus and his men sprinkled earth upon their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God,
\v 26 and falling down upon the step in front of the altar, implored him to become \f + \fr 10:26 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to them, and \f + \fr 10:26 \ft See Exodus 23:22. \f* be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares.
\v 27 And rising from their prayer they took up their arms, and advanced some distance from the city; and when they had come near to their enemies they \f + \fr 10:27 \ft Gr. \fqa were by themselves.\f* halted.
\v 28 And when the dawn was now spreading, the two \add armies \add* joined battle; the one part having this, beside \add their \add* virtue, for a pledge of success and victory, that they had fled to the Lord for refuge, the others making their passion their leader in the strife.
\v 29 But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared out of heaven to their adversaries five men on horses with bridles of gold, \add in \add* splendid \add array; \add* \f + \fr 10:29 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and leading on the Jews; who also, taking. \f* and two of them, leading on the Jews,
\v 30 and taking Maccabaeus in the midst of them, and covering him with their own armor, guarded him from wounds, while on the adversaries they shot forth arrows and thunderbolts; by reason whereof they were blinded and thrown into confusion, and were cut to pieces, filled with bewilderment.
\v 31 And there were slain twenty thousand and five hundred, beside six hundred horsemen.
\p
\v 32 But Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of exceedingly strength, \f + \fr 10:32 \ft See ver. 37. \f* Chaereas being in command there.
\v 33 But Maccabaeus and his men were glad and laid siege to the fortress four and twenty days.
\v 34 And those who were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and hurled forth impious words.
\v 35 But at dawn of the five and twentieth day certain young men of the company of Maccabaeus, inflamed with passion because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall with masculine force and with \f + \fr 10:35 \ft Gr. \fqa passion as of wild beasts. \f* furious passion, and cut down whoever came in their way.
\v 36 And others climbing up in like manner, while \add the besieged \add* were distracted with them \add that had made their way \add* within, set fire to the towers, and kindling fires burned the blasphemers alive; while others broke open the gates, and, having given entrance to the rest of the band, occupied the city.
\v 37 And they killed Timotheus, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes.
\v 38 And when they had accomplished these things, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, him who does great benefits to Israel, and gives them the victory.


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\v 1 Now after a very little time Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman and chancellor, being sore displeased for the things that had come to pass,
\v 2 collected about fourscore thousand \add footmen \add* and all his horsemen and came against the Jews, thinking to make the city a place for Greeks to dwell in,
\v 3 and to levy tribute on the temple, as \f + \fr 11:3 \ft Or, \fqa on all the sacred places of the heathen \f* on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood to sale every year;
\v 4 holding in no account the might of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
\v 5 And coming into Judea and drawing near to Bethsuron, which was a strong place and distant from Jerusalem about \f + \fr 11:5 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* five leagues, he pressed it hard.
\v 6 But when Maccabaeus and his men learned that he was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people with lamentations and tears made supplication to the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel.
\v 7 And Maccabaeus himself took up arms first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly.
\v 8 And as they were there, close to Jerusalem, there appeared at their head one on horseback in white apparel, brandishing \f + \fr 11:8 \ft Gr. \fqa a panoply. \f* weapons of gold.
\v 9 And they all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart: being ready to \f + \fr 11:9 \ft Gr. \fqa wound. \f* assail not men only but the wildest beasts, and walls of iron,
\v 10 they advanced in array, having him that is in heaven to fight on their side, for the Lord had mercy on them.
\v 11 And hurling \add themselves \add* like lions upon the enemy, they killed of them eleven thousand \add footmen \add* and sixteen hundred horsemen, and forced all \add the rest \add* to flee.
\v 12 But the more part of them escaped wounded \add and \add* naked; and Lysias also himself escaped by shameful flight.
\v 13 But as he was a man not void of understanding, weighing with himself the defeat which had befallen him, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God fought on their side, he sent again \add to them, \add*
\v 14 and persuaded them to come to terms on condition that all their rights were acknowledged, and \f + \fr 11:14 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* \add promised \add* that he would also persuade the king to become their friend.
\v 15 And Maccabaeus gave consent upon all the conditions which Lysias proposed to him, being careful of the \add common \add* good; for whatever \add requests \add* Maccabaeus delivered in writing to Lysias concerning the Jews the king allowed.
\v 16 For the letters written to the Jews from Lysias were to this effect:
\p Lysias to the \f + \fr 11:16 \ft Gr. \fqa multitude. \f* people of the Jews, greeting.
\v 17 John and Absalom, who were sent from you, having delivered the \f + \fr 11:17 \ft Or, \fqa document \f* petition written below, made request concerning the things signified therein.
\v 18 Whatever things therefore had need to be brought before the king I declared \add to him, \add* and what things were possible he allowed.
\v 19 If then you° will preserve your good will toward the state, henceforward I will also endeavor to contribute to \add your \add* good.
\v 20 \f + \fr 11:20 \ft Or, \fqa but as to this. \f* And on this behalf I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those \add that are sent \add* from me, to confer with you.
\v 21 Fare you° well. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the four and twentieth day of \add the month \add* \f + \fr 11:21 \ft This name is not found elsewhere, and is perhaps corrupt. \f* Dioscorinthius.
\p
\v 22 And the king’s letter was in these words:
\p King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greeting.
\v 23 Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom \f + \fr 11:23 \ft Or, \fqa should not be disquieted but \f* should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs,
\v 24 we, having heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s purpose to turn them to the \add customs \add* of the Greeks, but choose rather their own manner of living, and make request that the \add customs \add* of their law be allowed to them,—
\v 25 choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from \f + \fr 11:25 \ft Or, \fqa disquiet \f* disturbance, we determine that their temple be restored to them, and that they live according to the customs that were in the days of their ancestors.
\v 26 You will therefore do well to send \add messengers \add* to them and give them the right hand \add of friendship, \add* that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.
\p
\v 27 And to the nation the king’s letter was after this manner:
\p King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greeting.
\v 28 If you° fare well, we have our desire: we ourselves also are in good health.
\v 29 Menelaus informed us that your desire was to return home and follow your own business.
\v 30 They therefore that depart home up to the thirties day of Xanthicus shall have \add our \add* \f + \fr 11:30 \ft Gr. \fqa right hand. \f* friendship, with full permission
\v 31 that the Jews use their own \add proper \add* meats and \add observe their own \add* laws, even as formerly; and none of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been ignorantly done.
\v 32 Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you.
\v 33 Fare you° well. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.
\v 34 And the Romans also sent to them a letter in these words:
\p Quintus Memmius \add and \add* Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.
\v 35 In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent.
\v 36 But as for the things which he judged should be referred to the king, send one forthwith, after you° have advised thereof, that we may publish such \add decrees \add* as befit your case; for we are on our way to Antioch.
\v 37 Wherefore send some with speed, that we also may learn what is your mind.
\v 38 \f + \fr 11:38 \ft Gr. \fqa Be in good health. \f* Farewell. \add Written \add* in the hundred forty and eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.


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\v 1 So when these covenants had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their husbandry.
\v 2 But \add certain \add* of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the \add son \add* of Gennaeus, and Hieronymus also and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace.
\v 3 And men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews that lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them;
\v 4 and when \f + \fr 12:4 \ft Gr. \fqa they also. \f* the Jews, \f + \fr 12:4 \ft Gr. \fqa after. \f* relying on the common decree of the city, accepted \add the invitation, \add* as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned them, \add in number \add* not less than two hundred.
\v 5 But when Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow-countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him
\v 6 and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the haven on fire by night, and burned the boats, and put to the sword those that had fled there.
\v 7 But when the town was closed \add against him, \add* he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa.
\v 8 But learning that the men of Jamnia were minded to do in like manner to the Jews that sojourned among them,
\v 9 he fell upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire to the haven together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred and forty furlongs distant.
\p
\v 10 Now when they had drawn off nine furlongs from thence, as they marched against Timotheus, \add an army of \add* Arabians attacked him, no fewer than five thousand \add footmen \add* and five hundred horsemen.
\v 11 And when a sore battle had been fought, and Judas and his company by the help of God had good success, the nomads being overcome implored Judas to grant them friendship, promising to give \add him \add* cattle, and to help \f + \fr 12:11 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* his people in all other ways.
\v 12 So Judas, thinking that they would indeed be profitable in many things, agreed to live in peace with them; and receiving pledges of friendship they departed to their tents.
\v 13 And he also fell upon a certain city \f + \fr 12:13 \ft The relation between the names \fqa Gephyrun \ft and \fqa Caspin \ft is unknown, and perhaps the Greek text is corrupt. Compare \fqa Gephrun, \ft the name of a city of Gilead mentioned by Polybius, 5.70.12.; and \fqa Casphor, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 36. \f* Gephyrun, strong and fenced about with walls, and inhabited by a mixed multitude of various nations; and it was named Caspin.
\v 14 But those who were within, trusting to the strength of the walls and to their store of provisions, behaved themselves rudely toward Judas and those who were with him, railing, and furthermore blaspheming and speaking impious words.
\v 15 But Judas and his company, calling upon the great sovereign of the world, who without rams and cunning engines of war hurled down Jericho in the times of Joshua, rushed wildly against the wall;
\v 16 and having taken the city by the will of God, they made unspeakable slaughter, insomuch that the adjoining lake, which was two furlongs broad, appeared to be filled with the deluge of blood.
\p
\v 17 And when they had drawn off seven hundred and fifty furlongs from thence, they made their way to Charax, to the Jews that are called \f + \fr 12:17 \ft That is, \fqa men of Tob: \ft see Judges 11:3, 2 Samuel 10:6, and compare 1 Maccabees 5:13. \f* Tubieni.
\v 18 And Timotheus they found not in occupation of that district, for he had then departed from the district without accomplishing anything, but had left behind a garrison, and that a very strong one, in a certain post.
\v 19 But Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabaeus’s captains, went out and destroyed those that had been left by Timotheus in the stronghold, above ten thousand men.
\v 20 And Maccabaeus, ranging his own army by bands, set \f + \fr 12:20 \ft Gr. \fqa them. \f* these two over the bands, and marched in haste against Timotheus, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand footmen and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.
\v 21 But when Timotheus heard of the inroad of Judas, he at once sent away the women and the children and also the baggage into the \add fortress \add* called \f + \fr 12:21 \ft Compare \fqa Carnain, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44. \f* Carnion; for the place was hard to besiege and difficult of access by reason of the narrowness of the approaches on all sides.
\v 22 But when the band of Judas, who led the van, appeared in sight, and when terror came upon the enemy and fear, because the manifestation of him who sees all things came upon them, they fled amain, carried this way and that, so that they were often hurt of their own men, and pierced with the points of their swords.
\v 23 And Judas continued the pursuit the more hotly, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as thirty thousand men.
\v 24 But Timotheus himself, falling in with the company of Dositheus and Sosipater, implored them with much crafty guile to let him go with his life, because he had \add in his power \add* the parents of many \add of them \add* and the kindred of some: \f + \fr 12:24 \ft Gr. \fqa and the result will be that these be disregarded. \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* otherwise, \add said he, \add* little regard will \f + \fr 12:24 \ft Or, \fqa have been shown \f* be shown to these.
\v 25 So when he had with many words confirmed the agreement to restore them without hurt, they let him go that they might save their kindred.
\p
\v 26 And \add Judas, \add* marching against \f + \fr 12:26 \ft Compare \fqa Carnain, \ft 1 Maccabees 5:26, 43, 44. \f* Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed five and twenty thousand persons.
\v 27 And after he had put these to flight and destroyed them, he marched against Ephron also, a strong city, \f + \fr 12:27 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* wherein were multitudes of people of all nations; and stalwart young men placed \f + \fr 12:27 \ft Gr. \fqa in front of. \f* on the walls made a vigorous defense; and there were great stores of engines and darts there.
\v 28 But calling upon the Sovereign who with might breaks in pieces the \f + \fr 12:28 \ft Some authorities read \fqa weight. \f* strength of \f + \fr 12:28 \ft Or, \fqa his enemies \f* the enemy, they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty and five thousand of those who were within.
\v 29 And setting out from thence they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is distant from Jerusalem six hundred furlongs.
\v 30 But when the Jews that were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kindly bearing \add toward them \add* in the times of their misfortune,
\v 31 they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well affected toward the race for the future; and they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close to hand.
\p
\v 32 But after the \add feast \add* called Pentecost they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea:
\v 33 and he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.
\v 34 And when they had set themselves in array, it came to pass that a few of the Jews fell.
\v 35 And a certain Dositheus, one \f + \fr 12:35 \ft The Greek text is uncertain. \f* of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback and a strong man, pressed hard on Gorgias, and taking hold of his cloke drew him along by main force; and while he was minded to take the accursed man alive, one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and disabled his shoulder, and so Gorgias escaped to \f + \fr 12:35 \ft Compare 1 Maccabees 5:65. \f* Marisa.
\v 36 And when those who were with Esdris had been fighting long and were wearied out, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself, fighting on their side and leading the van of the battle;
\v 37 and \add then \add* in the language of his fathers he raised the battle-cry joined with hymns, and rushing unawares upon the troops of Gorgias put them to flight.
\p
\v 38 And Judas gathering his army came to the city of \f + \fr 12:38 \ft Gr. \fqa Odollam. \f* Adullam; and as the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there.
\v 39 And on the day following, \f + \fr 12:39 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* at which time it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, \f + \fr 12:39 \ft Or, \fqa and to bring them back to be with their kinsmen in the sepulchres \f* and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their fathers.
\v 40 But under the garments of each one of the dead they found \f + \fr 12:40 \ft Perhaps these were consecrated images of the idols. \f* consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with; and it became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen.
\v 41 All therefore, blessing the \add works \add* of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hid,
\v 42 betook themselves to supplication, beseeching that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. And the noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they had seen before their eyes what things had come to pass because of the sin of those who had fallen.
\v 43 And when he had made a collection man by man to the sum of two thousand drachmas of silver, he sent to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice for sin, doing therein right well and honorably, in that he took thought for a resurrection.
\v 44 For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it were superfluous and idle to pray for the dead.
\v 45 (And if \add he did it \add* looking to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who \f + \fr 12:45 \ft Gr. \fqa fall asleep. \f* die \f + \fr 12:45 \ft Or, \fqa on the side of godliness \f* in godliness, holy and godly was the thought.) Wherefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin.


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\v 1 In the hundred forty and ninth year tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Antiochus Eupator was coming with \add great \add* multitudes against Judea,
\v 2 and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, \f + \fr 13:2 \ft The Greek text here is corrupt. \f* each having a Greek force, a hundred and ten thousand footmen, and five thousand and three hundred horsemen, and two and twenty elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.
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\v 3 And Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the saving of his country, but because he thought that he would be set over the government.
\v 4 But the King of kings stirred up the \f + \fr 13:4 \ft Or, \fqa spirit \f* passion of Antiochus against the wicked wretch; and when Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, \add the king \add* commanded to bring him to Beroea, and \f + \fr 13:4 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* to put him to death after the manner of that place.
\v 5 Now there is in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all round it a \f + \fr 13:5 \ft Gr. \fqa contrivance or machine. \f* gallery \f + \fr 13:5 \ft Or, \fqa sloping steeply \f* descending sheer on every side into the ashes.
\v 6 Here him that is guilty of sacrilege, or has attained a preeminence in any other evil deeds, they \f + \fr 13:6 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* all push forward into destruction.
\v 7 By such a fate it befell the breaker of the law, Menelaus, to die, without obtaining so much as \add a grave in \add* the earth, and that right justly;
\v 8 for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins \f + \fr 13:8 \ft Gr. \fqa about. \f* against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, in ashes did he receive his death.
\p
\v 9 Now the king, \f + \fr 13:9 \ft Some authorities read \fqa indignant. \f* infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had befallen \add them \add* in his father’s time.
\v 10 But when Judas heard of these things, he gave charge to the multitude to call upon the Lord day and night, \add beseeching him, \add* if ever at any other time, so now to help those who were at the point to be deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple,
\v 11 and not to suffer the people that had been but now a little while revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen.
\v 12 So when they had all done the same thing together, \f + \fr 13:12 \ft Gr. \fqa and implored. \f* beseeching the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and commanded they should join him \add for service. \add*
\v 13 And having gone apart with the elders he resolved that, before the king’s army should enter into Judea and make themselves masters of the city, they should go forth and try the matter \add in fight \add* by the help of \f + \fr 13:13 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the Lord. \f* God.
\v 14 And committing the decision to the \f + \fr 13:14 \ft Some authorities read \fqa Creator. \f* Lord of the world, and exhorting those who were with him to contend nobly even to death for laws, temple, city, country, \f + \fr 13:14 \ft Or, \fqa mode of life \f* commonwealth, he pitched his camp by Modin.
\v 15 And given out to his men the watchword, VICTORY IS GOD’S, with a chosen body of the bravest young men he fell upon \add the camp \add* by night \add and penetrated \add* to the king’s \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa court. \f* tent, and killed \f + \fr 13:15 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* \add of \add* the \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army as many as two thousand men, and \f + \fr 13:15 \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* brought down the chiefest elephant with him that was in the \f + \fr 13:15 \ft Gr. \fqa house. \f* tower upon him.
\v 16 And at last they filled the \f + \fr 13:16 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army with terror and alarm, and departed with good success.
\v 17 And this had been accomplished when the day was but now dawning, because of the Lord’s protection that gave \f + \fr 13:17 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* Judas help.
\p
\v 18 But the king, having had a taste of the exceeding boldness of the Jews, made attempts by stratagem upon their positions,
\v 19 and \add upon \add* a strong fortress of the Jews at Bethsura; he advanced, was turned back, failed, was defeated,
\v 20 And Judas conveyed such things as were necessary to those who were within.
\v 21 But Rhodocus, from the Jewish ranks, made known to the enemy the secrets \add of his countrymen. \add* He was sought out, and taken, and shut up in prison.
\v 22 The king treated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took theirs, departed, attacked the forces of Judas, was put to the worse,
\v 23 heard that Philip who had been left as chancellor in Antioch had become reckless, was confounded, made to the Jews an overture \add of peace, \add* submitted himself and sware to acknowledge all their rights, came to terms with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and the place,
\v 24 showed kindness and graciously received Maccabaeus, left Hegemonides governor from Ptolemais even to the \f + \fr 13:24 \ft The form of this word is uncertain. Compare \fqa Girzites \ft (or \fqa Gizrites), \ft 1 Samuel 27:8. One manuscript reads \fqa Gerarenes. \f* Gerrenians,
\v 25 came to Ptolemais. The men of Ptolemais were displeased at the treaty, for they had exceedingly great indignation \add against the Jews: \add* they desired to annul the articles of the agreement.
\v 26 Lysias \f + \fr 13:26 \ft Gr. \fqa came forward to the tribune \ft or \fqa judgement seat. \f* came forward to speak, made the best defense that was possible, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, departed to Antioch. This was the issue of the inroad and departure of the king.


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\v 1 Now after a space of three years tidings were brought to Judas and his company that Demetrius the \add son \add* of Seleucus, having sailed into the haven of Tripolis with a mighty army and a fleet,
\v 2 had gotten possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and Lysias his guardian.
\p
\v 3 But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling \add with the Gentiles, \add* considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,
\v 4 came to king Demetrius in about the hundred and one and fifties year, presenting to him a chaplet of gold and a palm, and beside these \add some \add* of the festal olive boughs of the temple. And for that day he held his peace;
\v 5 but having gotten opportunity to further his own madness, being called by Demetrius into a meeting of his council, and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they purposed, he answered thereto.
\v 6 Those of the Jews that he called \f + \fr 14:6 \ft That is, \fqa Chasidim. \f* Hasidaeans, whose leader is Judas Maccabaeus, keep up war, and are seditious, not suffering the kingdom to find tranquillity.
\v 7 Wherefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory, I mean the high priesthood, I am now come \f + \fr 14:7 \ft Some authorities read \fqa a second time. \f* here;
\v 8 first for the unfeigned care I have for the things that concern the king, and secondly because I have regard also to my own fellow-citizens: for, through the unadvised dealing of those of whom I spoke before, our whole race is in no small misfortune.
\v 9 But do you, O king, having informed yourself of these things severally, take thought both for our country and for our race, which \f + \fr 14:9 \ft Or, \fqa is hardly bestead \f* is surrounded \add by foes, \add* according to the gracious kindness with which you receive all.
\v 10 For as long as Judas remains alive, it is impossible that the state should find peace.
\v 11 And when he had spoken such words as these, at once \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Or, \fqa the \ft king’s \fqa Friends likewise \f* the rest of the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 14:11 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9. \f* Friends, having ill will against Judas, inflamed Demetrius yet more.
\v 12 And forthwith appointing Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor of Judea, he sent him forth,
\v 13 giving him written instructions to make away with Judas himself and to scatter those who were with him, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the \f + \fr 14:13 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great temple.
\v 14 And \f + \fr 14:14 \ft Or, \fqa those who had fled before Judas all over Judea thronged \f* those in Judea that \f + \fr 14:14 \ft See 2 Maccabees 5:27. \f* had \add before \add* driven Judas into exile thronged to Nicanor in flocks, supposing that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would be successes to themselves.
\p
\v 15 But when \add the Jews \add* heard of Nicanor’s inroad and the assault of the heathen, they sprinkled earth \add upon their heads \add* and made solemn supplication to him who had established his own people for evermore, and who always, making manifest his presence, upholds \add those who are \add* his own portion.
\v 16 \f + \fr 14:16 \ft The Greek text of this verse and the next is corrupt. \f* And when the leader had given \add his \add* commands, he immediately sets out from thence, and joins battle with them at a village \add called \add* Lessau.
\v 17 But Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, \f + \fr 14:17 \ft Or, \fqa and had received a check, yet not till late by reason of the sudden consternation of his adversaries \f* yet not till late, having received a check by reason of the sudden consternation caused by his adversaries.
\p
\v 18 Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of those who were with Judas, and their courage in fighting for their country, shrank from bringing the matter to the decision of the sword.
\v 19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius and Theodotus and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship.
\v 20 So when these proposals had been long considered, and the leader had made the \f + \fr 14:20 \ft Or, \fqa people \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of like mind, they consented to the covenants.
\v 21 And they appointed a day on which to meet together by themselves. And a litter was borne forward from each \add army; \add* they set chairs of state;
\v 22 Judas stationed armed men ready in convenient places, lest perhaps there should suddenly be treachery on the part of the enemy; they held such conference as was meet.
\v 23 Nicanor waited in Jerusalem, and did nothing to cause disturbance, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered together.
\v 24 And he kept Judas always in his presence; he had gained a hearty affection for the man;
\v 25 he urged him to marry and beget children; he married, settled quietly, took part in common life.
\p
\v 26 But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, \f + \fr 14:26 \ft Or, \fqa and the covenants that had been made, took occasion and came \f* and having got possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was ill affected toward the state, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.
\v 27 And the king, falling into a rage, and being exasperated by the false accusations of that most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was displeased at the covenants, and commanding him to send Maccabaeus prisoner to Antioch in all haste.
\v 28 And when this message came to Nicanor, he was confounded, and was sore troubled at the thought of annulling the articles that had been agreed upon, the man having done no wrong;
\v 29 but because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to execute this purpose by stratagem.
\v 30 But Maccabaeus, when he perceived that Nicanor was behaving more harshly in his dealings with him, and that he had become ruler in his customary bearing, understanding that this harshness came not of good, gathered together not a few of his men, and concealed himself from Nicanor.
\p
\v 31 But the other, \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Or, \fqa though he was conscious that he had been nobly defeated by \f* when he became aware that he had been bravely defeated by the stratagem of \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Gr. \fqa the man. \f* Judas, came to the \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great and holy temple, while the priests were offering the usual sacrifices, and commanded them to deliver up the man.
\v 32 And when they declared with oaths that they had no knowledge where the man was whom he sought,
\v 33 he stretched forth his right hand toward the sanctuary, and sware this oath: If you° will not deliver up to me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this \f + \fr 14:33 \ft Or, \fqa chapel \ft Gr. \fqa inclosure. \f* temple of God even with the ground, and will break down the altar, and I will erect here a temple to \f + \fr 14:33 \ft Gr. \fqa Dionysus. \f* Bacchus for all to see.
\v 34 And having said this, he departed. But the priests, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, called upon him that ever fights for our nation, in these words:
\v 35 You, \f + \fr 14:35 \ft Or, \fqa O Lord, who in yourself have no need of the universe \f* O Lord of the universe, who in yourself have need of nothing, was well pleased that a sanctuary of your \f + \fr 14:35 \ft Gr. \fqa tabernacling. \f* habitation should be set among us;
\v 36 so now, O holy Lord of all hallowing, keep undefiled forever this house that has been lately cleansed.
\p
\v 37 Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, \f + \fr 14:37 \ft Or, \fqa who was a lover \f* as being a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will \add toward them. \add*
\v 38 For in the former times when there was no mingling \add with the Gentiles \add* he had been accused of \add cleaving to \add* the Jews’ religion, and had jeoparded body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews.
\v 39 And Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bare to the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to take him;
\v 40 for he thought by taking him to inflict a calamity upon them.
\v 41 But when the \f + \fr 14:41 \ft Or, \fqa people \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops were on the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and bade bring fire and burn the doors, he being surrounded on every side fell upon his sword,
\v 42 choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness:
\v 43 but since he missed his stroke through the excitement of the struggle, and the crowds were now rushing within the door, he ran bravely up to the wall and cast himself down manfully among the crowds.
\v 44 But as they quickly gave back, a space was made, and he fell on the middle of \f + \fr 14:44 \ft Or, \fqa the void place \f* his side.
\v 45 And having yet breath within him, and being inflamed with passion, he rose up, and though his blood gushed out in streams and his wounds were grievous, he ran through the crowds, and standing upon a steep rock,
\v 46 when as his blood was now well near spent, he drew forth his bowels \add through the wound, \add* and taking them in both his hands he shook them at the crowds; and calling upon him who is Lord of \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Or. \fqa life and spirit \f* the life and the \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit to restore him \f + \fr 14:46 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the same. \f* these again, he thus died.


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\v 1 But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the region of Samaria, resolved to set upon them with all security on the day of rest.
\v 2 And when the Jews that were compelled to follow him said, O destroy not so savagely and barbarously, but give due glory to the day which he that sees all things has \f + \fr 15:2 \ft Or, honored above \ft other days \fqa as a hallowed day \f* honored and hallowed above \add other days; \add*
\v 3 then the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a Sovereign in heaven that had commanded to keep the Sabbath day.
\v 4 And when they declared, There is the Lord, living himself a Sovereign in heaven, who bade \add us \add* observe the seventh day;
\v 5 then says the other, I also am a sovereign upon the earth, \f + \fr 15:5 \ft Or, \fqa that commands \f* who \add now \add* command to take up arms and execute the king’s business. Nevertheless he prevailed not to execute his \f + \fr 15:5 \ft Or, \fqa miserable \f* cruel purpose.
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\v 6 And Nicanor, \f + \fr 15:6 \ft Gr. \fqa carrying his neck high. \f* bearing himself haughtily in all vaingloriousness, had determined to set up a monument of complete victory over Judas and all those who were with him:
\v 7 but Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord.
\v 8 And he exhorted his company not to be fearful at the \f + \fr 15:8 \ft Or, \fqa assault \f* inroad of the heathen, but, keeping in mind the help which of old they had oftentimes received from heaven, so now also to look for the victory which would come to them from the Almighty;
\v 9 and comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the conflicts that they had maintained, he made them more eager \add for the battle. \add*
\v 10 And when he had roused their \f + \fr 15:10 \ft Or, \fqa passion \f* spirit, he gave them \add his \add* commands, at the same time pointing out the perfidiousness of the heathen and their breach of their oaths.
\v 11 And arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defense of shields and spears as with the encouragement \add that lies \add* in good words, and moreover relating to them a dream \f + \fr 15:11 \ft Or, \fqa most worthy...all glad \f* worthy to be believed, he made them all exceedingly glad.
\v 12 And the vision of that \add dream \add* was this: \add He saw \add* Onias, him that was high priest, a noble and good man, reverend in bearing, yet gentle in manner and well-spoken, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, with outstretched hands invoking \add blessings \add* on the whole body of the Jews:
\v 13 thereupon \add he saw \add* a man appear, of venerable age and exceedingly glory, and wonderful and most majestic was the dignity around him:
\v 14 and Onias answered and said, This is the lover of the kindred, he who prays much for the people and the holy city, Jeremiah the prophet of God:
\v 15 and Jeremiah stretching forth his right hand delivered to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it addressed \add him \add* thus,
\v 16 Take the holy sword, a gift from God, wherewith you shall strike down the adversaries.
\p
\v 17 And being encouraged by the words of Judas, which were of a lofty strain, and able to incite to virtue and to stir the souls of the young to manly courage, they determined \f + \fr 15:17 \ft Or, \fqa not to go out to battle, but nobly to engage within \ft their lines, \fqa etc. \ft The Greek text of this passage is uncertain. \f* not to carry on a campaign, but nobly to bear down upon \add the enemy, \add* and fighting hand to hand with all courage bring the matter to an issue, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.
\v 18 For their fear for wives and children, and furthermore for kindred and kinsfolk, was in less account with them; but greatest and first was their fear for the consecrated sanctuary.
\v 19 And they also that were shut up in the city were in no light distress, being troubled because of the encounter in the open ground.
\p
\v 20 And when all were now waiting for the decision of the issue, and the enemy had already joined battle, and the army had been set in array, and the \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Gr. \fqa beasts. \f* elephants \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Or, \fqa stationed for convenient action \f* brought back to a convenient post, and the horsemen drawn up \f + \fr 15:20 \ft Or, \fqa in line \f* on the flank,
\v 21 Maccabaeus, perceiving the presence of the \f + \fr 15:21 \ft Gr. \fqa multitudes. \f* troops, and the various arms with which they were equipped, and the savageness of the \f + \fr 15:21 \ft Gr. \fqa beasts. \f* elephants, holding up his hands to heaven called upon the Lord that works wonders, recognising that \add success \add* comes not by arms, but that, according as \add the Lord \add* shall judge, he gains the victory for those who are worthy.
\v 22 And calling upon \add God \add* he said after this manner: You, O Sovereign Lord, did send your angel in the time of Hezekiah king of Judea, and he killed of the \f + \fr 15:22 \ft Gr. \fqa camp. \f* army of Sennacherib as many as a hundred fourscore and five thousand;
\v 23 so now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling:
\v 24 through the greatness of your arm let them be stricken with dismay that with blasphemy are come here against your holy people. And as he ended with these words,
\v 25 Nicanor and his company advanced with trumpets and victory songs;
\v 26 but Judas and his company joined battle with the enemy with invocation and prayers.
\v 27 And contending with their hands, and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty five thousand men, being made exceedingly glad by the manifestation of God.
\p
\v 28 And when the engagement was over, and they were returning again with joy, they recognized Nicanor lying dead in full armor;
\v 29 and there arose a shout and \f + \fr 15:29 \ft Or, \fqa bewilderment \f* tumult, and \add then \add* they blessed the Sovereign \add Lord \add* in the language of their fathers.
\v 30 And he that in all things was in body and soul the foremost champion of his fellow-citizens, he that kept through life the good will of his youth toward his countrymen, commanded to cut off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with the shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.
\v 31 And when he had arrived there, and had called his countrymen together and set the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel;
\v 32 and showing the head of the vile Nicanor, and the hand of that profane man, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty,
\v 33 and cutting out the tongue of the impious Nicanor, he said that he would give \f + \fr 15:33 \ft Or, \fqa them \f* it by pieces to the birds, and hang up the \f + \fr 15:33 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* rewards of his madness near the sanctuary.
\v 34 And they all \add looking up \add* to heaven blessed \f + \fr 15:34 \ft Or, \fqa the glorious Lord \f* the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, Blessed be he that has preserved his own place undefiled.
\v 35 And he hanged Nicanor’s head and shoulder from the citadel, a sign, evident to all and manifest, of the help of the Lord.
\v 36 And they all ordained with a common decree in no wise to let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian tongue), the day before the day of Mordecai.
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\p
\v 37 THIS then having been the issue of the attempt of Nicanor, and the city having from those times been held by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my book.
\v 38 And if \add I have written \add* well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to.
\v 39 For as it is \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Or, \fqa hurtful \f* distasteful to drink wine alone and in like manner again \add to drink \add* water \add alone, \add* \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Gr. \fqa but even as. \f* while the mingling of wine with water at once \f + \fr 15:39 \ft Or, \fqa adds delight to the benefit \f* gives full pleasantness to the flavor; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story.
\p And here shall be the end.


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\v 1 It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take of the fire, as has been signified \add above: \add*
\v 2 and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord, neither be led astray in their minds, when they saw images of gold and silver, and the adornment thereof.
\v 3 And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart.
\v 4 And it was \add contained \add* in the writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, \f + \fr 2:4 \ft Gr. \fqa and when. \ft The Greek text here is probably corrupt. \f* when he went forth into the mountain where Moses went up and saw the heritage of God.
\v 5 And Jeremiah came and found \f + \fr 2:5 \ft Gr. \fqa a cavernous chamber. \f* a chamber in the rock, and there he brought in the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense; and he made fast the door.
\v 6 And some of those that followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it.
\v 7 But when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying, Yes and the place shall be unknown until God \f + \fr 2:7 \ft Gr. \fqa gather together a gathering of the people. \f* gather the people again together, and mercy come:
\v 8 and then shall the Lord disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen, and the \f + \fr 2:8 \ft Or, \fqa cloud, as...temple. As Moses \f* cloud.
\p As also it was showed with Moses; as also Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly,
\v 9 and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple; \add so we would have it now. \add*
\v 10 As Moses prayed to the Lord, and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings;
\v 11 \f + \fr 2:11 \ft See Leviticus 10:16 and 9:24. \f*(and Moses said, Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner \add with the rest\add*;)
\v 12 and Solomon kept the eight days.
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\v 13 And the same things were related \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Or, \fqa also \f* both in the public archives and in \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Or, \fqa Nehemiah’s records \f* the records that concern Nehemiah; and how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the \add books \add* of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts.
\v 14 And in like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those \add writings \add* that had been scattered by reason of the war that befell, and they are \add still \add* with us.
\v 15 If therefore you° have need thereof, send some to fetch them to you.
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\v 16 Seeing then that we are about to keep the purification, we write to you; you° will therefore do well if you° keep the days.
\v 17 Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the hallowing,
\v 18 even as he promised through the law,— in God have we hope, that he will quickly have mercy upon us, and gather \add us \add* together out of \f + \fr 2:18 \ft Gr. \fqa the \ft earth \fqa under heaven. \f* all the earth to the holy place: for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place.
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\v 19 Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his kindred, and the purification of the \f + \fr 2:19 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great temple, and the dedication of the altar,
\v 20 and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son,
\v 21 and the manifestations that came from heaven to those that vied with one another in manful deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they \f + \fr 2:21 \ft Gr. \fqa took for a prey. \f* rescued the whole country, and chased the barbarous multitudes,
\v 22 and recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and restored the laws which were like to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became \f + \fr 2:22 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to them with all forbearance:
\v 23 \add these things, I say, \add* which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one work.
\v 24 For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the \f + \fr 2:24 \ft Or, weariness \f* difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter,
\v 25 we were careful that they who choose to read may be attracted, and that they who wish well \add to our cause \add* may find it easy to recall \f + \fr 2:25 \ft Or, the past \f* \add what we have written, \add* and that all readers may have profit.
\v 26 And although to us, who have taken upon us the painful labor of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but \add a matter \add* of sweat and watching
\v 27 (even as it is no light thing to him that prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others); yet for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labor,
\v 28 leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again \f + \fr 2:28 \ft Or, \fqa making no effort \f* having no strength to \f + \fr 2:28 \ft Or, \fqa enlarge on \f* fill in the outlines of our abridgement.
\v 29 For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Gr. \fqa foundation. \f* structure, and again he that undertakes to \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Gr. \fqa decorate in encaustic. \f* decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for the adorning thereof; even so I think it is also with us.
\v 30 To occupy the ground, and to \f + \fr 2:30 \ft Or, \fqa provide a place for discussions \f* indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, becomes the first author of the history:
\v 31 but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him that would bring a writing into a new form.
\v 32 Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding thus much to that which has been already \f + \fr 2:32 \ft Or, \fqa spoken of \f* said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history \add itself. \add*
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\v 1 WHEN the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,
\v 2 it came to pass that even the kings themselves did honor the place, and glorify the temple with the noblest presents;
\v 3 insomuch that even Seleucus the king of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices.
\v 4 But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the \f + \fr 3:4 \ft Or, \fqa charge of the buildings \ft Gr. \fqa office of aedile. \f* ruling of the market in the city.
\v 5 And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius \add the son \add* of \f + \fr 3:5 \ft Or, \fqa Thraseas \ft The Greek text is probably corrupt. Perhaps the true reading is \fqa Apollonius of Tarsus. \f* Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia:
\v 6 and he brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power.
\v 7 And when Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money whereof he had been told; and the \add king \add* appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a commandment to accomplish the removal of the aforesaid money.
\v 8 So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under a color of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose.
\v 9 And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Some authorities read \fqa and of the city. \f* of the city, he laid before \f + \fr 3:9 \ft Or, \fqa him \f* \add them \add* an account of the information which had been given \add him, \add* and declared wherefore he was come; and he inquired if in truth these things were so.
\v 10 And the high priest explained to him that there were \add in the treasury \add* deposits of widows and orphans,
\v 11 and moreover some \add money \add* belonging to Hyrcanus the \add son \add* of Tobias, a man in very high place, \f + \fr 3:11 \ft Or, and \fqa not \ft such a man \fqa as that impious Simon slanderously alleged \f* \add and that the case was \add* not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold;
\v 12 and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to them that had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.
\v 13 But \f + \fr 3:13 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the other. \f* Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandments given him, said that in any case this \add money \add* must be confiscated for the king’s treasury.
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\v 14 So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city.
\v 15 And the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and \add looking \add* toward heaven, called upon him that gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these \add treasures \add* safe for those that had deposited them.
\v 16 And whoever saw the mien of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul.
\v 17 For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked upon him.
\v 18 And those who were in the houses rushed flocking out to make a universal supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.
\v 19 And the women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ward ran together, some to the \f + \fr 3:19 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows.
\v 20 And all, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, made their solemn supplication.
\v 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the expectation of the high priest in his sore distress.
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\v 22 While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted \add to them \add* \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Gr. \fqa safe with all security. \f* safe and sure for those that had entrusted them,
\v 23 Heliodorus went on to execute that which had been decreed.
\v 24 But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great \f + \fr 3:24 \ft Gr. \fqa manifestation. \f* apparition, so that all that had presumed to come \add in \add* with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted and were sore afraid.
\v 25 For there was seen by them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete armor of gold.
\v 26 Two other also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes.
\v 27 And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, \add his guards \add* caught him up and put him into a litter,
\v 28 and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.
\v 29 And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,
\v 30 they blessed the Lord, that made marvelous his own place; and the temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared.
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\v 31 But quickly certain of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High, and grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp.
\v 32 And the high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the deliverance of the man.
\v 33 But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments; and they stood and said, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life;
\v 34 and do you, since you have been scourged from heaven, publish to all men the sovereign majesty of God. And when they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight.
\v 35 So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed \f + \fr 3:35 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great vows to him that had saved his life, and having graciously received Onias, returned with his army to the king.
\v 36 And he testified to all men the works of the \f + \fr 3:36 \ft Gr. \fqa greatest. \f* great God which he had seen with his eyes.
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\v 37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, what manner of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,
\v 38 If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you shall receive him back well scourged, if he even escape with his life; because of a truth there is about the place a power of God.
\v 39 For he that has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes upon that place, and helps it; and those who come to hurt it he strikes and destroys.
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\v 40 And such was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury.


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\v 1 But the aforesaid Simon, he who had given information of the money, and \add had betrayed \add* his country, slandered Onias, \add saying \add* that it was he who had incited Heliodorus, and made himself the author of these evils.
\v 2 And him that was the benefactor of the city, and the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws, he dared to call a conspirator against the state.
\v 3 But when the growing enmity \add between them \add* waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of \f + \fr 4:3 \ft Gr. \fqa those that had been approved by Simon. \f* Simon’s trusted followers,
\v 4 Onias, seeing the \f + \fr 4:4 \ft Or, \fqa severity \f* danger of the contention, and that \f + \fr 4:4 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 4:21. See also 2 Maccabees 3:5. The Greek as commonly read means \fqa Apollonius, as \ft being \fqa the governor...Phoenicia, did rage, and increase etc. \f* Apollonius \add the son \add* of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,
\v 5 betook himself to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the \f + \fr 4:5 \ft Gr. \fqa multitude. \f* people, both public and private;
\v 6 for he saw that without the king’s providence it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness.
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\v 7 But when Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted \add his brother \add* in the high priesthood,
\v 8 having promised to the king at an audience three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and \add out \add* of another fund eighty talents;
\v 9 and beside this, he undertook to assign a hundred and fifty more, if it might be allowed him \f + \fr 4:9 \ft Gr. \fqa through his. \f* through the king’s authority to set him up a \add Greek \add* place of exercise and \add form \add* a body of youths \add to be trained therein, \add* and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as \add citizens \add* of Antioch.
\v 10 And when the king had given assent, and he had gotten possession of the office, he forthwith brought over them of his own race to the Greek fashion.
\v 11 And setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the ambassage to the Romans for friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful modes of life, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law:
\v 12 for he eagerly established a \add Greek \add* place of exercise under the citadel itself; and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the \add Greek \add* cap.
\v 13 And thus there was an extreme of Greek fashions, and an advance of an alien religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly man and no high priest;
\v 14 so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar: but despising the sanctuary, and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to \f + \fr 4:14 \ft Or, \fqa take part in the unlawful provision for the palaestra \f* enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the palaestra, after the summons \f + \fr 4:14 \ft Or, \fqa to \ft the game of \fqa the discus \f* of the discus;
\v 15 making of no account the honors of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks best of all.
\v 16 By reason whereof sore calamity beset them; and the men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these they had to be their enemies and to punish them.
\v 17 For it is not a light thing to do impiously against the laws of God: but \f + \fr 4:17 \ft Or, \fqa this the due season \ft of requital \fqa will make plain \f* these things the time following shall declare.
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\v 18 Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,
\v 19 the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, \f + \fr 4:19 \ft See ver. 9. \f* as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for \add any \add* sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to \f + \fr 4:19 \ft Or, \fqa reserve for \f* expend on another charge.
\v 20 And though in the purpose of the sender this \add money was \add* for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of \f + \fr 4:20 \ft Some authorities read \fqa the bearers. \f* present circumstances it went to the equipment of the galleys.
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\v 21 Now when Apollonius the \add son \add* of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the \f + \fr 4:21 \ft The exact meaning of the Greek word is uncertain. \f* enthronement of \add Ptolemy \add* Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that \add Ptolemy \add* had shown himself ill affected toward the state, took thought for the security of his realm; wherefore, going \add by sea \add* to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem.
\v 22 And being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. This done, he afterward led his army down into Phoenicia.
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\v 23 Now after a space of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money to the king, and to \f + \fr 4:23 \ft Or, \fqa convey \ft to him \fqa reports \f* make reports concerning some necessary matters.
\v 24 But he being commended to the king, and \f + \fr 4:24 \ft The Greek text of this verse is uncertain. \f* having glorified \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Or, \fqa him \f* himself \f + \fr 4:24 \ft Or, \fqa by \ft flattering \fqa the dignity of his authority \f* by the display of his authority, got the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
\v 25 And having received the royal mandates he came \add to Jerusalem, \add* bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.
\v 26 And whereas Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites,
\v 27 Menelaus had possession of the office: but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing \f + \fr 4:27 \ft Gr. \fqa was in due order. \f* was duly paid, and that though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it
\v 28 (for to him appertained the gathering of the revenues); for which cause they were both called by the king to his presence.
\v 29 And Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his \f + \fr 4:29 \ft Gr. \fqa successor. \f* deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus \add left \add* Crates, who was over the Cyprians.
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\v 30 Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.
\v 31 The king therefore came \add to Cilicia \add* in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his \f + \fr 4:31 \ft Gr. \fqa successor. \f* deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank.
\v 32 And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favorable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other \add vessels \add* also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about.
\v 33 And when Onias had sure knowledge \add of this, \add* he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.
\v 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him \f + \fr 4:34 \ft Or, \fqa to get Onias into his hands \f* to kill Onias. And coming to Onias, and \f + \fr 4:34 \ft The Greek text of this sentence is probably corrupt. \f* being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, \add Andronicus \add* gave him his right hand with oaths \add of fidelity, \add* and, though he was suspected \add by him, so \add* persuaded him to come forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith he \f + \fr 4:34 \ft Or, \fqa imprisoned him \ft Gr. \fqa shut him off. \f* despatched him without regard of justice.
\v 35 For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.
\v 36 And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were \f + \fr 4:36 \ft Or, \fqa in the several cities \f* in the city pleaded before \add him against Andronicus \add* (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.
\v 37 Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead;
\v 38 and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and \f + \fr 4:38 \ft Or, \fqa tore his \f* tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.
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\v 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the bruit thereof was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed.
\v 40 And when the multitudes were rising against \add him, \add* and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began \add the conflict, \add* one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading \add the attack. \add*
\v 41 But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him;
\v 42 by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all \add of them \add* they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.
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\v 43 But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
\v 44 And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.
\v 45 But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the \add son \add* of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.
\v 46 Whereupon Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:
\v 47 and him that was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.
\v 48 Soon then did those who were spokesmen for the city and the families \add of Israel \add* and the holy vessels suffer that unrighteous penalty.
\v 49 For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.
\v 50 But Menelaus through the covetous dealings of those who were in power remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, \f + \fr 4:50 \ft Gr. \fqa established as a. \f* as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens.


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\v 1 Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt.
\v 2 And it \add so \add* befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared in the midst of the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and \add carrying \add* spears, equipped in troops for battle;
\v 3 and drawing of swords; and \add on the other side \add* squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and \f + \fr 5:3 \ft Or, \fqa charges \f* pursuits of both \add armies; \add* and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, and girding on of all sorts of armor.
\v 4 Wherefore all men implored that the \f + \fr 5:4 \ft Gr. \fqa manifestation. \f* vision might have been given for good.
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\v 5 But when a false rumor had arisen that Antiochus was deceased, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly \f + \fr 5:5 \ft Gr. \fqa perpetrated. \f* made an assault upon the city; and those who were upon the wall being routed, and the city being now at length well near taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.
\v 6 But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen.
\v 7 The office \add however \add* he didn’t get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.
\v 8 At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been \f + \fr 5:8 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt;
\v 9 and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished \add himself \add* in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter \add there \add* because they were \f + \fr 5:9 \ft See 1 Maccabees 12:7. \f* near of kin;
\v 10 and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers.
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\v 11 Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
\v 12 and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses;
\v 13 and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.
\v 14 And in all the three days \add of the slaughter \add* there were destroyed fourscore thousand, \add whereof \add* forty thousand \add were slain \add* in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain.
\v 15 But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country),
\v 16 even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honor of the place.
\v 17 And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was \add then \add* turned away from the place.
\v 18 But had it not so been that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view the treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed.
\v 19 However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake.
\v 20 Wherefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that befell the nation, did afterward share in \add its \add* benefits; and the \add place \add* which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory.
\v 21 As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance to make the land navigable and the sea passable by foot, because his heart was lifted up.
\v 22 And moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him that set him there;
\v 23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Some authorities read \fqa toward the Jews, he sent. \ft The Greek text of this sentence is uncertain. \f* toward the Jews \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Compare 2 Maccabees 4:9, 19; 9:19. \f* \add whom he had made \add* his citizens,
\v 24 he sent that \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Gr. \fqa Μυσάρχην, \ft which also may mean \fqa ruler of the Mysians. \f* lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men.
\v 25 And he coming to Jerusalem, and playing the man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms.
\v 26 And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes.
\v 27 But Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on \f + \fr 5:27 \ft Gr. \fqa the grassy food. \f* such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the \add threatened \add* pollution.


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\v 1 And not long after this the king sent forth \f + \fr 6:1 \ft Or, \fqa Geron an Athenian \f* an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God;
\v 2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Zeus. \f* Jupiter Olympius, and \add to call \add* the \add sanctuary \add* in Gerizim by the name of \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Gr. \fqa Zeus. \f* Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they \f + \fr 6:2 \ft Or, \fqa did \f* were that lived in the place.
\v 3 But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.
\v 4 For the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who \f + \fr 6:4 \ft Or, \fqa idled with their fellows \f* dallied with prostitutes, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting;
\v 5 and \f + \fr 6:5 \ft Or, \fqa the altar \f* the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws.
\v 6 And a man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.
\v 7 And on the day of the king’s birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Gr. \fqa feast of Dionysia. \f* feast of Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of \f + \fr 6:7 \ft Gr. \fqa Dionysus. \f* Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy.
\v 8 A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices;
\v 9 and that they should kill such as didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see:
\v 10 for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall.
\v 11 And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burned together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honor of that most solemn day.
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\v 12 I beseech therefore those that read this book, that they be not discouraged because of the calamities, but account that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.
\v 13 For indeed that those who act impiously be not let alone any long time, but immediately meet with retribution, is a sign of great beneficence.
\v 14 For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with patience forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of \add their \add* sins; but not so judged he as touching us,
\v 15 that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, \f + \fr 6:15 \ft Or, \fqa when our sins be come to their height \f* when we be come to the \f + \fr 6:15 \ft Gr. \fqa end. \f* height of our sins.
\v 16 Wherefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, yet does he not forsake his own people.
\v 17 However let this that we have spoken suffice to put \add you \add* in remembrance; but after \add these \add* few words we must come to the narrative.
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\v 18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well stricken in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.
\v 19 But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth \add the flesh,\add*
\v 20 \add coming forward \add* as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not \add even \add* for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.
\v 21 But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was befitting for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king;
\v 22 that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.
\v 23 But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, and the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs \f + \fr 6:23 \ft The Greek text appears to be corrupt. \f* which he had reached with honor, and his excellent \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Some authorities read \fqa manner of life. \f* education from a child, \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Or, \fqa but yet more \f* or rather \add that became \add* the holy \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Gr. \fqa legislation. \f* laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him to Hades.
\v 24 For it becomes not our years to dissemble, \add said he, \add* that \add through this \add* many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over to an alien religion;
\v 25 and \add so \add* they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, \f + \fr 6:25 \ft Or, \fqa while I shall get\f* and \add thus \add* I get to myself a pollution and a stain of my old age.
\v 26 For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead.
\v 27 Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,
\v 28 and \f + \fr 6:28 \ft Gr. \fqa one that has left behind. \f* leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture.
\v 29 \f + \fr 6:29 \ft The Greek text of this verse is uncertain. \f* And when they changed the good they will bare him a little before into ill will, because \f + \fr 6:29 \ft Gr. \fqa the aforesaid words were. \f* these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,
\v 30 and when he was at the point to die with the \f + \fr 6:30 \ft Or, \fqa blows \f* stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.
\v 31 So this man also died after this manner, leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.


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\v 1 And it came to pass that seven kindred also with their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh.
\v 2 But one of them made himself the spokesman and said, What would you ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers.
\v 3 And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons:
\v 4 and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his kindred and his mother looking on.
\v 5 And when he was utterly \f + \fr 7:5 \ft Gr. \fqa useless. \f* maimed, \add the king \add* commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapor of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus:
\v 6 The Lord God sees, and in truth is \f + \fr 7:6 \ft Or, \fqa comforted in \f* entreated for us, as Moses declared in \f + \fr 7:6 \ft See Deuteronomy 31:21 and 32:36. \f* his song, which witnesses against \add the people \add* to their faces, saying, And he shall be \f + \fr 7:6 \ft Or, \fqa comforted in \f* entreated for his servants.
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\v 7 And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt you eat, before your body be punished in every limb?
\v 8 But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, No. Wherefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done.
\v 9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said, You, miscreant, do release us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, to an eternal renewal of life.
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\v 10 And after him was the third made a mocking-stock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously,
\v 11 and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt; and from him I hope to receive these back again:
\v 12 insomuch that the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains.
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\v 13 And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner.
\v 14 And being come near to death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are \add given \add* by God, that we shall be raised up again by him; for as for you, you shall have no resurrection to life.
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\v 15 And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him.
\v 16 But he looked toward \f + \fr 7:16 \ft Gr. \fqa him. \f* the king and said, Because you have authority among men, though you are \add yourself \add* corruptible, you do what you will; yet think not that our race has been forsaken of God;
\v 17 but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed.
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\v 18 And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvelous things are come to pass;
\v 19 but think not you that you shall be unpunished, having assayed to fight against God.
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\v 20 But above all was the mother marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she looked on seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bare \add the sight \add* with a good courage for the hopes \add that she had set \add* on the Lord.
\v 21 And she exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble temper and stirring up her womanish thought with manly passion, saying to them,
\v 22 I know not how you° came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your \f + \fr 7:22 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you.
\v 23 Therefore the Creator of the world, who fashioned the \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa first origin \f* generation of man and devised the \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa first origin \f* generation of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your \f + \fr 7:23 \ft Or, \fqa breath \f* spirit and your life, as you° now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake.
\v 24 But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal \add to him \add* by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and \f + \fr 7:24 \ft Gr. \fqa make him one that is counted happy. \f* raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the \add customs \add* of his fathers, and that he would take him for his \f + \fr 7:24 \ft See 2 Maccabees 8:9. \f* Friend and entrust him with affairs.
\v 25 But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called to him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself.
\v 26 And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son.
\v 27 But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke thus in the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried you nine months in my womb, and gave you suck three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you.
\v 28 I beseech you, my child, to lift your eyes to the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and \add that \add* the race of men in this wise comes into being.
\v 29 Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your kindred, accept your death, that in the mercy \add of God \add* I may receive you again with your kindred.
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\v 30 But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait you° for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses.
\v 31 But you, that have devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shall in no wise escape the hands of God.
\v 32 For we are suffering because of our own sins;
\v 33 and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants.
\v 34 But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, be not vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children;
\v 35 For not yet have you escaped the judgement of the Almighty God that sees \add all things. \add*
\v 36 For these our kindred, having endured a \f + \fr 7:36 \ft Gr. \fqa short pain of ever-flowing life. \f* short pain that brings everlasting life, have now \f + \fr 7:36 \ft Gr. \fqa fallen. \ft By the omission of one Greek letter the words would signify \fqa having endured a short pain, have now drunk of ever-flowing life under God’s covenant. \f* died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance.
\v 37 But I, as my kindred, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become \f + \fr 7:37 \ft Gr. \fqa propitious. \f* gracious to the nation; and that you amidst trials and plagues may confess that he alone is God;
\v 38 and that in me and my kindred \f + \fr 7:38 \ft Some authorities read \fqa may be stayed. \f* you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.
\v 39 But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.
\v 40 So he also died pure \add from pollution, \add* putting his whole trust in the Lord.
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\v 41 And last of all after her sons the mother died.
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\v 42 Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the \add enforcement of \add* sacrificial feasts and the \add king’s \add* exceeding barbarities.


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\v 1 But Judas, who is also \add called \add* Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way privily into the villages, called to them their kinsfolk; and taking to them such as had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together as many as six thousand.
\v 2 And they called upon the Lord, \add beseeching him \add* to look upon the people that was oppressed by all; and to have compassion on the sanctuary also that had been profaned by the ungodly men;
\v 3 and to have pity on the city also that was suffering ruin and ready to be made even even with the ground; and to listen to the blood that cried to him;
\v 4 and to remember also the lawless \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa destruction.\f* slaughter of the innocent infants, and \f + \fr 8:4 \ft Gr. \fqa concerning the blasphemies. \f* the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to show his hatred of wickedness.
\v 5 And when Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for that the wrath of the Lord was turned into pity.
\v 6 \f + \fr 8:6 \ft The Greek text of verses 6 and 7 is uncertain. \f* And coming unawares he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies,
\v 7 he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. And his courage was loudly talked of everywhere.
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\v 8 But when Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause.
\v 9 And \add Ptolemy \add* quickly appointed Nicanor the \add son \add* of Patroclus, one of the \add king’s \add* \f + \fr 8:9 \ft See 1 Maccabees 10:65. Compare 2 Maccabees 1:14; 7:24; 10:13; 14:11; 1 Maccabees 2:18. \f* Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war.
\v 10 And Nicanor \f + \fr 8:10 \ft Or, \fqa resolved \f* undertook by \add the sale of \add* the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans.
\v 11 And immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten \f + \fr 8:11 \ft Gr. \fqa bodies. \f* slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty.
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\v 12 But tidings came to Judas concerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army,
\v 13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God \f + \fr 8:13 \ft The Greek text here is uncertain. \f* ran away and left the country.
\v 14 And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold \add as slaves \add* by the impious Nicanor or ever he met them;
\v 15 and \add this, \add* if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name.
\v 16 And Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be stricken with dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them; but to contend nobly,
\v 17 setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.
\v 18 For they, said he, trust to arms, and withal to deeds of daring; but we trust on the almighty God, since he is able at a beck to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world.
\v 19 And moreover he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both the \add help given \add* in the days of Sennacherib, how that a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished,
\v 20 and the \add help given \add* in the land of Babylon, even the battle that was fought against the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Gr. \fqa Galatians. \f* Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, \add and how that, \add* the Macedonians being hard pressed, the \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Some authorities read \fqa eight. \f* six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help which they had from heaven, and took great booty.
\v 21 And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts;
\v 22 \f + \fr 8:22 \ft Gr. \fqa appointing his kindred also leaders. \f* appointing his kindred to be with himself leaders of the several bands, \add to wit, \add* Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, giving each the command of fifteen hundred men,
\v 23 and moreover Eleazer also: \add then, \add* having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, THE HELP OF GOD, leading the first band himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
\v 24 And, since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed of the enemy above nine thousand, and wounded and \f + \fr 8:24 \ft Gr. \fqa disabled in their limbs. \f* disabled the more part of Nicanor’s army, and compelled all to flee:
\v 25 and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some \f + \fr 8:25 \ft Or, \fqa while \f* distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;
\v 26 for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far.
\v 27 \f + \fr 8:27 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered \f + \fr 8:27 \ft Gr. \fqa their arms...the spoils of the enemy. \f* the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they occupied themselves about the Sabbath, blessing and thanking the Lord exceedingly, who had saved them to this day, for that he had caused a beginning of mercy to distil upon them.
\v 28 And after the Sabbath, when they had given of the spoils to the \f + \fr 8:28 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed, and to the widows and orphans, the residue they distributed among themselves and their children.
\v 29 And when they had accomplished these things, and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.
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\v 30 And having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed above twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of strongholds exceedingly high, and divided very much plunder, giving the \f + \fr 8:30 \ft Or, \fqa wounded \ft Gr. \fqa shamefully handled. \f* maimed and orphans and widows, and moreover the aged also, an equal share with themselves.
\v 31 \f + \fr 8:31 \ft The exact meaning of this clause is uncertain. \f* And when they had gathered the arms \f + \fr 8:31 \ft Gr. \fqa of them. \f* of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.
\v 32 And they killed the \f + \fr 8:32 \ft That is, probably, the captain of an irregular auxiliary force. Some write \fqa Phylarches, \ft as a proper name. \f* phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt.
\v 33 \f + \fr 8:33 \ft The Greek text here is perhaps corrupt. \f* And as they kept the feast of victory in the \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa country \f* city of their fathers, they burned those that had set the sacred \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa porches \f* gates on fire, \add and among them \add* Callisthenes, who had fled into \f + \fr 8:33 \ft Or, \fqa a solitary hut \f* an outhouse; and \add so \add* they received the meet reward of their impiety.
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\v 34 And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews \add for slaves, \add*
\v 35 being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and \add passing \add* through the midland, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Gr. \fqa having made himself solitary. \f* shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, \f + \fr 8:35 \ft Or, \fqa having won the greatest possible favor by reason of the destruction of his army \f* having, \add as he thought, \add* had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed.
\v 36 And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that \f + \fr 8:36 \ft Or, \fqa because of this \ft their \fqa way of life \ft Gr. \fqa because of this manner. \f* because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.


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\v 1 Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned \f + \fr 9:1 \ft Or, \fqa with dishonor \f* in disorder from the region of Persia.
\v 2 For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob \f + \fr 9:2 \ft Or, \fqa temples \f* a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and \f + \fr 9:2 \ft Or, the people of the country \fqa turned \f* \add Antiochus and his men \add* turned to make defense with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace.
\v 3 And while he was at Ecbatana, news was brought him what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus.
\v 4 And being lifted up \f + \fr 9:4 \ft Or, \fqa in his spirit \f* by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there.
\v 5 But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a \f + \fr 9:5 \ft Gr. \fqa remediless. \f* fatal and invisible stroke; and as soon as he had ceased speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, and bitter torments of the inner parts;
\v 6 and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings.
\v 7 But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; no, still more was he filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body.
\v 8 And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, \f + \fr 9:8 \ft Or, \fqa showing manifestly to all the power of God \f* showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;
\v 9 so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption.
\v 10 And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.
\v 11 Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken \add in spirit, \add* and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.
\v 12 And when he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not \f + \fr 9:12 \ft Some authorities read \fqa be minded as \ft if \fqa equal to God. \f* be minded arrogantly.
\v 13 And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise:
\v 14 that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to \f + \fr 9:14 \ft Gr. \fqa build. \f* make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;
\v 15 and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens;
\v 16 and the holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with goodliest offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices;
\v 17 and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God.
\v 18 But when his sufferings did in no wise cease, for the judgement of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope of himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect:
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\v 19 To the worthy Jews, his fellow-citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity.
\v 20 \f + \fr 9:20 \ft Or, \fqa You° fare well, and your children; and your affairs are to your mind. \ft The Greek text in verses 20 and 21 is uncertain. \f* May you° and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven,
\v 21 I remembered with affection your honor and good will \add toward me. \add* Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all,
\v 22 not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness.
\v 23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,
\v 24 to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they \add that remained \add* in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled;
\v 25 and, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbors to my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus \add to be \add* king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below.
\v 26 I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will toward me and my son.
\v 27 For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence.
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\v 28 So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life among the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land.
\v 29 And Philip his foster brother conveyed the body \add home; \add* and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.


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\mt1 THE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS
\ip \bk The First Book of Esdras\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, but 1 Esdras is placed as an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.


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\v 1 \x + \xo 1:1 \xt 2 Kings 23:21; 2 Chronicles 35:1\x* Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month;
\v 2 having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the temple of the Lord.
\v 3 And he spoke to the Levites, \f + \fr 1:3 \ft That is, \fqa the temple servants. \ft See Num. 3:9.\f* the temple-servants of Israel, that they should make themselves holy to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built:
\v 4 \add and said,\add* You° shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare you after your fathers’ houses and kindred,
\v 5 according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the holy place according to the several divisions of the families of you the Levites, who \add minister\add* in the presence of your kindred the children of Israel,
\v 6 offer the Passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given to Moses.
\v 7 And to the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, \add and\add* three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s substance, according as he promised, to the people, and to the priests and Levites.
\v 8 And Helkias, and Zacharias, and \f + \fr 1:8 \fq Jehiel, \ft 2 Chronicles 35:8.\f* Esyelus, the rulers of the temple, gave to the priests for the Passover two thousand \add and\add* six hundred sheep, \add and\add* three hundred calves.
\v 9 And Jeconias, and Samaias and Nathanael his brother, and Sabias, and Ochielus, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep, \add and\add* seven hundred calves.
\v 10 And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in comely order according to the kindred,
\v 11 and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus \add did they\add* in the morning.
\v 12 And they roasted the Passover with fire, as appertains: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen vessels and caldrons with a good savor,
\v 13 and set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their kindred, the sons of Aaron.
\v 14 For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests their kindred, the sons of Aaron.
\v 15 The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David, \add to wit,\add* Asaph, Zacharias, and Eddinus, who \f + \fr 1:15 \ft Another reading is, \fqa were.\f* was of the king’s retinue.
\v 16 Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their kindred the Levites prepared for them.
\v 17 Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holding the Passover,
\v 18 and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias.
\v 19 So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
\v 20 And such a Passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.
\v 21 Yes, all the kings of Israel held not such a Passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were present in their dwelling place at Jerusalem.
\v 22 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this Passover held.
\v 23 And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.
\v 24 Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above every people and kingdom, and how they grieved him \f + \fr 1:24 \ft Or, \fqa sensibly \ft Judges 16:17.\f* exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord were confirmed against Israel.
\p
\v 25 \x + \xo 1:25 \xt 2 Chronicles 35:20\x* Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchemish upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him.
\v 26 But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judea?
\v 27 I am not sent out from the Lord God against you; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yes, the Lord is with me hastening me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.
\v 28 However Josias didn’t turn back \f + \fr 1:28 \ft Another reading is, \fqa his chariot from him.\f* to his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy \add spoken\add* by the mouth of the Lord:
\v 29 but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias.
\v 30 Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army.
\v 31 Then got he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his fathers.
\v 32 And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him, to this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.
\v 33 These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now \add recited\add*, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
\p
\v 34 \x + \xo 1:34 \xt 2 Kings 23:30; 2 Chronicles 36:1\x* And the people took \f + \fr 1:34 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Jeconias.\f* Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.
\v 35 And he reigned in \f + \fr 1:35 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Israel.\f* Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.
\v 36 And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
\v 37 The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.
\v 38 And Joakim bound the nobles: but Zarakes his brother he apprehended, and brought him up out of Egypt.
\v 39 Five and twenty years old was \x + \xo 1:39 \xt 2 Chronicles 36:4-5\x* Joakim when he began to reign in Judea and Jerusalem; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
\v 40 And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
\v 41 Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them up in his own temple at Babylon.
\v 42 But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.
\v 43 And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was \f + \fr 1:43 \ft Another reading is, \fqa eight.\f* eighteen years old;
\v 44 and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did that which was evil before the Lord.
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\v 45 So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought to Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;
\v 46 and made Sedekias king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:
\v 47 and he also did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken by Jeremy the prophet from the mouth of the Lord.
\v 48 And after king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.
\v 49 Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, \f + \fr 1:49 \ft Another reading is, \fqa even above all.\f* and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.
\v 50 And the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place.
\v 51 But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spoke \add to them,\add* they scoffed at his prophets:
\v 52 so far forth, that he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them;
\v 53 who killed their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child; but he delivered all into their hands.
\v 54 And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with \f + \fr 1:54 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the arks of the Lord.\f* the vessels of the ark of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away to Babylon.
\v 55 And they burned the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burned the towers thereof with fire:
\v 56 and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon:
\v 57 and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy:
\v 58 Until the land has enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep Sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.


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\v 1 In the \x + \xo 2:1 \xt 2 Chronicles 36:22,23; Ezra 1:1\x* first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished,
\v 2 the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,
\v 3 saying, Cyrus king of the Persians says: The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world,
\v 4 and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judea.
\v 5 If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, \f + \fr 2:5 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Let his Lord be etc.\f* let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: he is the Lord that dwells in Jerusalem.
\v 6 Of such therefore as dwell in various places, let those who are in his own place help each one with gold, and with silver,
\v 7 with gifts, with horses also and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
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\v 8 Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem.
\v 9 And those who lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up \add thereto. \add*
\v 10 King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.
\v 11 Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithradates his treasurer,
\v 12 and by him they were delivered to \f + \fr 2:12 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Simanassar.\f* Sanabassar the governor of Judea.
\v 13 And this was the number of them: A thousand golden cups, a thousand cups of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
\v 14 So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand four hundred threescore and nine,
\v 15 and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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\v 16 \x + \xo 2:16 \xt Ezra 4:7\x* But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Belemus, and Mithradates, and Tabellius, and \f + \fr 2:16 \fqa Rehum,\f* Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and \f + \fr 2:16 \fqa Shimshai.\f* Samellius the scribe, with the others that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote to him against those who lived in Judea and Jerusalem the letter following:
\v 17 To king Artaxerxes our Lord, Your servants, Rathumus the recorder, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
\v 18 Be it now known to our lord the king, that the Jews that have come up from you to us, having come to Jerusalem, are building that rebellious and wicked city, and and repair its marketplaces and walls, and laying the foundation of a temple.
\v 19 Now if this city is built and the walls \add thereof\add* are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.
\v 20 And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,
\v 21 but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your fathers:
\v 22 and you shall find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and shall understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities:
\v 23 and that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein of old time; for the which cause even this city was laid waste.
\v 24 Wherefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, you shall from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
\v 25 Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, and Beeltethmus, and Samellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and lived in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner:
\v 26 I have read the letter which you° have sent to me: therefore I commanded to make search, and it has been found that that city of old time has made insurrection against kings;
\v 27 and the men were given to rebellion and war therein: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tribute in Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
\v 28 Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this \add order; \add*
\v 29 and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.
\v 30 Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste to Jerusalem with horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.


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\v 1 Now king Darius made a great feast to all his subjects, and to all that were born in his house, and to all the princes of Media and of Persia,
\v 2 and to all the local governors and captains and governors that were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the hundred twenty and seven provinces.
\v 3 And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and awaked out of his sleep.
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\v 4 Then the three young men of the body-guard, that kept the king’s person, spoke one to another:
\v 5 Let every one of us say one thing which shall be strongest: and he whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, to him shall Darius the king give great gifts, and great honors in token of victory:
\v 6 as, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and a turban of fine linen, and a chain about his neck:
\v 7 and he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin.
\v 8 And then they wrote every one his sentence, and set to their seals, and laid \add the writing\add* under king Darius his pillow,
\v 9 and said, When the king is risen, some shall give him the writing; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written.
\v 10 The first wrote, Wine is the strongest.
\v 11 The second wrote, The king is strongest.
\v 12 The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth bears away the victory.
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\v 13 Now when the king was risen up, they took the writing, and gave it to him, and so he read it:
\v 14 and sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, and the local governors, and the captains, and the governors, and the chief officers;
\v 15 and sat him down in the royal seat of judgment; and the writing was read before them.
\v 16 And he said, Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called, and came in.
\v 17 And they said to them, Declare to us your mind concerning the things you° have written.
\p Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine,
\v 18 and said thus, O sirs, how exceedingly strong is wine! it causes all men to err that drink it:
\v 19 it makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:
\v 20 it turns also every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt:
\v 21 and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor local governor; and it makes to speak all things by talents:
\v 22 and when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and kindred, and a little after draw their swords:
\v 23 but when they awake from their wine, they remember not what they have done.
\v 24 O sirs, is not wine the strongest, seeing that it enforces to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.


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\v 1 Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,
\v 2 O sirs, do not men excel in strength, that bear rule over the sea and land, and all things in them?
\v 3 But yet is the king stronger: and he is their lord, and has dominion over them; and in whatever he commands them they obey him.
\v 4 If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers.
\v 5 They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the plunder, as all things else.
\v 6 Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king.
\v 7 And he is \f + \fr 4:7 \ft Or, \fqa one and alone\f* but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;
\v 8 if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
\v 9 if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.
\v 10 So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest:
\v 11 and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him \add in anything. \add*
\v 12 O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace.
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\v 13 Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.
\v 14 O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women?
\v 15 Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.
\v 16 Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes.
\v 17 These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be.
\v 18 Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, \f + \fr 4:18 \ft Another reading is, \fqa do they not love etc.\f* and see a woman which is comely in favor and beauty,
\v 19 they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever.
\v 20 A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and joins with his wife.
\v 21 And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.
\v 22 By this also you° must know that women have dominion over you: do you° not labor and toil, and give and bring all to women?
\v 23 Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;
\v 24 and looks upon a lion, and walks in the darkness; and when he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to his love.
\v 25 Wherefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother.
\v 26 Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes.
\v 27 Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women.
\v 28 And now do you° not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?
\v 29 Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king,
\v 30 and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; yes, she struck the king with her left hand:
\v 31 and therewithal the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, he was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.
\v 32 O sirs, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?
\p
\v 33 Then the king and the nobles looked one upon another: so he began to speak concerning truth.
\v 34 O sirs, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he encircles the heavens round about, and fetches his course again to his own place in one day.
\v 35 Is he not great that makes these things? therefore great is truth, and stronger than all things.
\v 36 All the earth calls upon truth, and the heaven blesses her: all works shake and tremble, but with \f + \fr 4:36 \ft Another reading is, him.\f* her is no unrighteous thing.
\v 37 Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the children of men are unrighteous, and unrighteous are all such their works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.
\v 38 But truth remains, and is strong forever; she lives and conquers forevermore.
\v 39 With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she does the things that are just, \add and refrains\add* from all unrighteous and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.
\v 40 Neither in her judgment is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, and the kingdom, and the power, and the majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth.
\v 41 And with that he held his tongue. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and strong above all things.
\p
\v 42 Then said the king to him, Ask what you will more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it you, inasmuch as you are found wisest; and you shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin.
\v 43 Then said he to the king, Remember your vow, which you did vow to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom,
\v 44 and to send away all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them again there.
\v 45 You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans.
\v 46 And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that shall proceed from you: I pray therefore that you make good the vow, the performance whereof you have vowed to the King of heaven with your own mouth.
\p
\v 47 Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem.
\v 48 He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.
\v 49 Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
\v 50 and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
\v 51 and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;
\v 52 and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:
\v 53 and that all those who should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came.
\v 54 He wrote also \add to give them\add* their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;
\v 55 and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem built up.
\v 56 And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages.
\v 57 He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he charged also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem.
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\v 58 Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,
\v 59 and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant.
\v 60 Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.
\v 61 And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred.
\v 62 And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty
\v 63 to go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days.


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\v 1 After this were the chiefs of fathers’ houses chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.
\v 2 And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem \f + \fr 5:2 \ft Gr. \fqa with peace.\f* safely, and with musical instruments, tabrets and flutes.
\v 3 And all their kindred played, and he made them go up together with them.
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\v 4 And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several divisions.
\v 5 The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;
\v 6 who spoke wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.
\v 7 \x + \xo 5:7 \xt Ezra 2:1\x* And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they lived as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon.
\v 8 And they returned to Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, \add and\add* \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Seralah.\f* Zaraias, Resaias, \f + \fr 5:8 \ft Or, \fqa Enenis.\f* Eneneus, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Mispar.\f* Aspharsus, \f + \fr 5:8 \fqa Reclaiah\f* Reelias, Roimus, \add and\add* Baana, their leaders.
\v 9 The number of them of the nation, and their leaders: the sons of \f + \fr 5:9 \fqa Parosh.\f* Phoros, two thousand a hundred seventy and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:9 \fqa Shephatiah.\f* Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:
\v 10 the sons of \f + \fr 5:10 \fqa Arah.\f* Ares, seven hundred fifty and six:
\v 11 the sons of \f + \fr 5:11 \fqa Pahath-moab.\f* Phaath Moab, of the sons of Jesus and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve:
\v 12 the sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the sons of \f + \fr 5:12 \fqa Zattu.\f* Zathui, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:12 \fqa Zaccai.\f* Chorbe, seven hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:
\v 13 the sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three: the sons of \f + \fr 5:13 \fqa Asgad.\f* Astad, \f + \fr 5:13 \ft According to other readings, 3622, or 3222.\f* a thousand three hundred twenty and two:
\v 14 the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:14 \fqa Bigvai.\f* Bagoi, two thousand sixty and six: the sons of \f + \fr 5:14 \fqa Adin.\f* Adinu, four hundred fifty and four:
\v 15 the sons of \f + \fr 5:15 \fqa Ater of Hezekiah.\f* Ater, of Ezekias, ninety and two: the sons of Kilan and Azetas, three score and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:15 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Azuru.\f* Azaru, four hundred thirty and two:
\v 16 the sons of \f + \fr 5:16 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Annias.\f* Annis, a hundred and one: the sons of Arom: the sons of \f + \fr 5:16 \fqa Bezai.\f* Bassai, three hundred twenty and three: the sons of Arsiphurith, a hundred and twelve:
\v 17 the sons of Baiterus, three thousand and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:17 \fqa Bethlehem.\f* Bethlomon, a hundred twenty and three:
\v 18 they of Netophas, fifty and five: they of Anathoth, a hundred fifty and eight: they of \f + \fr 5:18 \fqa Azmaveth.\f* Bethasmoth, forty and two:
\v 19 they of \f + \fr 5:19 \fqa Kiriath-arim\f* or \f + \fr 5:19 \fqa Kiriath-jearim.\f* Kariathiarius, twenty and five: they of Caphira and Beroth, seven hundred forty and three:
\v 20 the Chadiasai and Ammidioi, four hundred twenty and two: they of \f + \fr 5:20 \fqa Rumah.\f* Kirama and \f + \fr 5:20 \fqa Geba.\f* Gabbe, six hundred twenty and one:
\v 21 they of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Michmas.\f* Macalon, a hundred twenty and two: they of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Bethel.\f* Betolion, fifty and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:21 \fqa Magbish\f* Niphis, a hundred fifty and six:
\v 22 the sons of \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Lod, Hadid.\f* Calamolalus and \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Ono.\f* Onus, seven hundred twenty and five: the sons of \f + \fr 5:22 \fqa Jericho.\f* Jerechu, \f + \fr 5:22 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two\f* three hundred forty and five:
\v 23 the sons of \f + \fr 5:23 \fqa Senaah.\f* Sanaas, three thousand three hundred and \f + \fr 5:23 \ft Another reading is, \fqa one.\f* thirty.
\v 24 The priests: the sons of \f + \fr 5:24 \fqa Jedaiah.\f* Jeddu, the son of Jesus, among the sons of Sanasib, \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Another reading is, \fqa eight\f* nine hundred seventy and two: the sons of \f + \fr 5:24 \fqa Immer.\f* Emmeruth, \f + \fr 5:24 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two hundred.\f* a thousand fifty and two:
\v 25 the sons of \f + \fr 5:25 \fqa Pashhur.\f* Phassurus, a thousand two hundred forty and seven: the sons of \f + \fr 5:25 \fqa Harim.\f* Charme, \f + \fr 5:25 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two hundred\f* a thousand and seventeen.
\v 26 The Levites: the sons of Jesus, and Kadmiel, and Bannas, and Sudias, seventy and four.
\v 27 The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, a hundred \f + \fr 5:27 \ft Another reading is, \fqa forty\f* twenty and eight.
\v 28 The gatekeepers: the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Shallum.\f* Salum, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Ater.\f* Atar, the sons of Tolman, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Akkub.\f* Dacubi, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Hatita.\f* Ateta, the sons of \f + \fr 5:28 \fqa Shobai.\f* Sabi, in all a hundred thirty and nine.
\v 29 The temple servants: the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Ziha.\f* Esau, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Hasupha.\f* Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Keros.\f* Keras, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Siaha.\f* Sua, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Padon.\f* Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of \f + \fr 5:29 \fqa Hagaba.\f* Aggaba.
\v 30 the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Akkub.\f* Acud, the sons of Uta, the sons of Ketab, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Hagab.\f* Accaba, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Shamlai.\f* Subai, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Hanan.\f* Anan, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Giddel.\f* Cathua, the sons of \f + \fr 5:30 \fqa Gahar\f* Geddur,
\v 31 the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Reaiah.\f* Jairus, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Rezin.\f* Daisan, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Nekoda.\f* Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Gazzam.\f* Gazera, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Uzza.\f* Ozias, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Paseah.\f* Phinoe, the sons of Asara, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Besai.\f* Basthai, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Asnah.\f* Asana, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Meunim.\f* Maani, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Nephisim.\f* Naphisi, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Bakbuk. \ft According to other readings, \fqa Acum, \ft or \fqa Acuph.\f* Acub, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Hakupha.\f* Achipha, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Harhur.\f* Asur, the sons of Pharakim, the sons of \f + \fr 5:31 \fqa Bazluth.\f* Basaloth,
\v 32 the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Mehida.\f* Meedda, the sons of Cutha, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Harsha\f* Charea, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Barkos.\f* Barchus, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Sisera.\f* Serar, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Temah\f* Thomei, the sons of \f + \fr 5:32 \fqa Neziah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Nasith.\f* Nasi, the sons of Atipha.
\v 33 The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Hussophereth.\f* Assaphioth, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Peruda.\f* Pharida, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Jaalah.\f* Jeeli, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Darkon.\f* Lozon, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Giddel.\f* Isdael, the sons of \f + \fr 5:33 \fqa Shephatia.\f* Saphuthi,
\v 34 the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \fqa Hattil.\f* Agia, the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \fqa Pochereth-haz-zebaim, \ft Ezra 2:57.\f* Phacareth, the sons of Sabie, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of \f + \fr 5:34 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Misaias.\f* Masias, the sons of Gas, the sons of Addus, the sons of Subas, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Saphat, the sons of Allon.
\v 35 All the temple-servants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.
\v 36 These came up from \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Telmelah.\f* Thermeleth, and \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Telharsha.\f* Thelersas, \f + \fr 5:36 \fqa Cherub. Addan.\f* Charaathalan leading them, and Allar;
\v 37 and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Delaiah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Asan.\f* Dalan the son of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Tobiah \ft Another reading is, \fqa Baenan.\f* Ban, the sons of \f + \fr 5:37 \fqa Nekoda.\f* Nekodan, six hundred fifty and two.
\v 38 And of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Habaiah, \ft or \fqa Hobaiah.\f* Obdia, the sons of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Hakkoz.\f* Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of \f + \fr 5:38 \fqa Barzillai. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Phaezeldaeus.\f* Zorzelleus, and was called after his name.
\v 39 And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood:
\v 40 for to them said Nehemias and Attharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up a high priest wearing \f + \fr 5:40 \ft Gr. \fqa the manifestation and truth.\f* Urim and Thummim.
\v 41 So all they of Israel, from twelve years old \add and upward,\add* beside menservants and women servants, were \add in number\add* forty and two thousand three hundred and sixty.
\v 42 Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: the minstrels and singers, two hundred forty and five:
\v 43 four hundred thirty and five camels, seven \f + \fr 5:43 \ft Another reading is, \fqa hundred.\f* thousand thirty and six horses, two hundred forty and five mules, five thousand five hundred twenty and five beasts of burden.
\v 44 And certain of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability,
\v 45 and to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and a hundred priestly vestments.
\v 46 And the priests and the Levites and those who were of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country; the holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel in their villages.
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\v 47 But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the broad place before the first porch which is toward the east.
\v 48 Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred the priests, and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel,
\v 49 to offer burned sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.
\v 50 And certain were gathered to them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.
\v 51 Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and \add offered\add* sacrifices daily, as was meet:
\v 52 and after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts.
\v 53 And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the \f + \fr 5:53 \ft Another reading is, \fqa first.\f* seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built.
\v 54 And they gave money to the masons and carpenters; and meat and drink,
\v 55 and cars to them of Sidon and Tyre, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, \add and\add* convey them in floats to the haven of Joppa, according to the commandment which was written for them by Cyrus king of the Persians.
\v 56 And in the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and their kindred, and the Levitical priests, and all those who were come to Jerusalem out of the captivity:
\v 57 and they laid the foundation of the temple of God on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem.
\v 58 \x + \xo 5:58 \xt Ezra 3:8-9\x* And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and kindred, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord started the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the temple of the Lord.
\v 59 And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals,
\v 60 singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, after the order of David king of Israel.
\v 61 And they sang aloud, praising the Lord in songs of thanksgiving, because his goodness and his glory are forever in all Israel.
\v 62 And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.
\v 63 \x + \xo 5:63 \xt Ezra 3:12-13\x* Also of the Levitical priests, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping.
\v 64 But many with trumpets and joy \add shouted\add* with loud voice,
\v 65 insomuch that the people heard not the trumpets for the weeping of the people: for the multitude sounded marvelously, so that it was heard afar off.
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\v 66 \x + \xo 5:66 \xt Ezra 4:1\x* Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.
\v 67 And they perceived that those who were of the captivity did build the temple to the Lord, the God of Israel.
\v 68 So they went to zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, we will build together with you.
\v 69 For we likewise, as you°, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice to him from the days of \f + \fr 5:69 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Asbacaphath.\f* Asbasareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us here.
\v 70 Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, It is not \f + \fr 5:70 \ft Another reading is, \fqa for us and you.\f* for you to build the house to the Lord our God.
\v 71 We ourselves alone will build to the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us.
\v 72 But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and \f + \fr 5:72 \ft Or, \fqa besieging them\f* holding them strait, hindered their building;
\v 73 and \f + \fr 5:73 \ft Another reading is, \fqa leading the people astray in counsel, and raising commotions.\f* by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.


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\v 1 Now \x + \xo 6:1 \xt Ezra 4:24; 5:1\x* in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of \f + \fr 6:1 \fqa Iddo. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Eddin\f* Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem; in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, \add prophesied they\add* to them.
\v 2 Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedek, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, \add and\add* helping them.
\v 3 \x + \xo 6:3 \xt Ezra 5:3\x* At the same time came to them \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Tattenai.\f* Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, with \f + \fr 6:3 \fqa Shetharbozenai\f* Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them,
\v 4 By whose appointment do you° build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the builders that perform these things?
\v 5 Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;
\v 6 and they were not hindered from building, until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer signified.
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\v 7 The copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius;
\v 8 To king Darius, greeting: Let all things be known to our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity
\v 9 building a house to the Lord, great \add and\add* new, of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls.
\v 10 And those works are done with great speed, and the work goes on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence it is accomplished.
\v 11 Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build you° this house, and lay the foundations of these works?
\v 12 Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the chief doers, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.
\v 13 So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
\v 14 And as for this house, it was built many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
\v 15 But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;
\v 16 and they pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives to Babylon.
\v 17 But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, king Cyrus wrote to build up this house.
\v 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set up in his own temple, those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple in Babylonia, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to \f + \fr 6:18 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Sabunassarus.\f* Sanabassarus the governor,
\v 19 with commandment that he should carry away \f + \fr 6:19 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the same.\f* all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in its place.
\v 20 Then Sanabassarus, being come here, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.
\v 21 Now therefore, if it seem good, O king, let search be made among the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon:
\v 22 and if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and it seem good to our lord the king, let him signify to us thereof.
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\v 23 \x + \xo 6:23 \xt Ezra 6:1\x* Then commanded King Darius to seek among the archives that were laid up at Babylon: and so at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a \f + \fr 6:23 \ft Another reading is, \fqa place.\f* scroll where these things were recorded.
\v 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded to build up the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:
\v 25 whose height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus:
\v 26 and that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.
\v 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place.
\v 28 And I also do command to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of Judea, till the house of the Lord be finished:
\v 29 and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion be carefully given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, \add that is,\add* to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;
\v 30 and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:
\v 31 that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.
\v 32 And that commandment be given that whoever shall transgress, yes, or neglect anything \f + \fr 6:32 \ft ft Another reading is, \fqa before spoken or written.\f* written here, out of his own \add house\add* shall a tree be taken, and he be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king.
\v 33 The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that shall stretch out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
\v 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according to these things it be done with diligence.


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\v 1 Then \x + \xo 7:1 \xt Ezra 6:13\x* Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius,
\v 2 did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple.
\v 3 And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied.
\v 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians.
\v 5 \add And thus\add* was \f + \fr 7:5 \ft Another reading is, \fqa the holy house.\f* the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius.
\v 6 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added \add to them,\add* did according to the things \add written\add* in the book of Moses.
\v 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
\v 8 \add and\add* twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve \f + \fr 7:8 \ft Another reading is, \fqa tribes of Israel.\f* princes of the tribes of Israel.
\v 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the gatekeepers at every gate.
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\v 10 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together,
\v 11 \f + \fr 7:11 \ft Another reading is, \fqa And those who were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together. And etc.\f* and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together,
\v 12 and they offered the Passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves.
\v 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord.
\v 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,
\v 15 for that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel.


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\v 1 \x + \xo 8:1 \xt Ezra 7:1\x* And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, came Ezdras the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem,
\v 2 the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, \f + \fr 8:2 \ft The Vatican MS. omits \fq the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias.\f* the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest.
\v 3 This Esdras went up from Babylon, as being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.
\v 4 And the king did him honor: for he found grace in hid sight in all his requests.
\v 5 There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and Levites, and holy singers, and gatekeepers, and \f + \fr 8:5 \ft That is, \fqa the temple servants.\f* temple servants, to Jerusalem,
\v 6 in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon on the new moon of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them \f + \fr 8:6 \ft Some MSS. omit \fq for his sake.\f* for his sake.
\v 7 For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, \add but\add* taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments.
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\v 8 Now the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, whereof this that follows is a copy;
\v 9 King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting:
\v 10 Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, \f + \fr 8:10 \ft Another reading is, \fqa being within.\f* and of those within our realm, as are willing and desirous, should go with you to Jerusalem.
\v 11 As many therefore as have a mind \add thereto,\add* let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors;
\v 12 that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,
\v 13 and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed; and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem,
\v 14 with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereto appertaining;
\v 15 to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.
\v 16 And whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with gold and silver, that perform, according to the will of your God.
\v 17 And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:
\v 18 and whatever thing else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury.
\v 19 And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it him with all diligence,
\v 20 to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to a hundred \f + \fr 8:20 \ft Gr. \fqa cors.\f* measures, and a hundred firkins\f + \fr 8:20 \ft a firkin is about 41 liters or 11 gallons.\f* of wine, and \f + \fr 8:20 \ft So some authorities. See Ezra 7:22. The common reading is, \fqa other things.\f* salt in abundance.
\v 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.
\v 22 I command you also, that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose anything upon them.
\v 23 And you, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those that know the law of your God; and those that know it not you shall teach.
\v 24 And whoever shall transgress the law of your God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by \f + \fr 8:24 \ft Or. \fqa captivity\f* imprisonment.
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\v 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:
\v 26 and has honored me in the sight of the king, and his counselors, and all his friends and nobles.
\v 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together out of Israel men to go up with me.
\v 28 And these are the chief according to their families and the several divisions thereof, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:
\v 29 of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, \f + \fr 8:29 \fqa Hattush.\f* Attus \f + \fr 8:29 \ft Ezra 8:3, \fqa of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh.\f* the son of Sechenias:
\v 30 of the sons of Phoros, Zacharais; and with him were counted a hundred and fifty men:
\v 31 of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of \f + \fr 8:31 \fqa Zerehiah.\f* Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:
\v 32 \f + \fr 8:32 \ft Ezra 8:5, \fqa of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel.\f* of the sons of Zathoes, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him \f + \fr 8:32 \ft Another reading is, \fqa two\f* three hundred men: of the sons ofAdin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:
\v 33 of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of \add Athaliah.\add* Gotholias, and with him seventy men:
\v 34 of the sons of Saphatias, \add Zebadiah.\add* Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:
\v 35 of the sons of Joab, \add Obadiah.\add* Abadias son of \add Jehiel.\add* Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:
\v 36 \f + \fr 8:36 \ft Ezra 8:10, \fqa of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah.\f* of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him a hundred and threescore men:
\v 37 of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:
\v 38 of the sons of \add Azgad.\add* Astath, Joannes son of \add Hakkatan\add* Akatan, and with him a hundred and ten men:
\v 39 of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and \add Shemaiah.\add* Samaias, and with them seventy men:
\v 40 of the sons of \add Bigvai.\add* Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.
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\v 41 And I gathered them together to the river called Theras; and there we pitched our tents three days, and I surveyed them.
\v 42 But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,
\v 43 then sent I to Eleazar, and \add Ariel\add* Iduel, and Maasmas,
\v 44 and Elnathan, and Samaias, and \add Jarib\add* Joribus, Nathan, Ennatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamus, principal men and men of understanding.
\v 45 And I bade those who they should go to \add Iddo\add* Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of \add Casiphia,\add* the treasury:
\v 46 and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, and to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of our Lord.
\v 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us \f + \fr 8:47 \ft Another reading is, \fqa a man.\f* men of understanding of the sons of \f + \fr 8:47 \fqa Mahli.\f* Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, \f + \fr 8:47 \fqa Sherebiah.\f* Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen,
\v 48 and \f + \fr 8:48 \fqa Hashabiah.\f* Asebias, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men;
\v 49 and of the temple-servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred and twenty temple-servants, the catalogue of all their names was showed.
\v 50 And there I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and cattle that were with us:
\v 51 for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for protection against our adversaries.
\v 52 For we had said to the king, that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways.
\v 53 And again we implored our lord as touching these things, and found him favorable \add to us. \add*
\v 54 Then I separated twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, \f + \fr 8:54 \fqa Sherebiah, Hashabiah.\f* Eserebias, and Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them:
\v 55 and I weighed them the silver, and the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his counselors, and the nobles, and all Israel, had given.
\v 56 And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of a hundred talents, and a hundred talents of gold,
\v 57 and twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.
\v 58 And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, \f + \fr 8:58 \ft Another reading is, \fqa and the holy vessels and the silver and the gold etc.\f* and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.
\v 59 Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.
\v 60 So the priests and the Levites, who received the silver and the gold and the vessels which were in Jerusalem, brought them into the temple of the Lord.
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\v 61 And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, until we came to Jerusalem, by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us: and the Lord delivered us from \add assault by\add* the way, from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.
\v 62 And when we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to \f + \fr 8:62 \fqa Meremoth.\f* Marmoth the priest the son of \f + \fr 8:62 \fqa Uriah.\f* Urias.
\v 63 And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and \f + \fr 8:63 \fqa Noadiah the son of Binnui.\f* Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites: all \add was delivered them\add* by number and weight.
\v 64 And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.
\v 65 Moreover those who were come out of the captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,
\v 66 threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
\v 67 And they delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards, and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord.
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\v 68 Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me, and said,
\v 69 The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away \add from them\add* the strange people of the land, \f + \fr 8:69 \ft Another reading is, \fqa nor their uncleannesses, \ft to wit, \fqa of the Gentiles, etc.\f* nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, \add to wit,\add* of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.
\v 70 For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.
\v 71 And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and full of heaviness.
\v 72 So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.
\v 73 Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord,
\v 74 I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;
\v 75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven,
\v 76 ever since the time of our fathers; and we are in great sin, even to this day.
\v 77 And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day.
\v 78 And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary;
\v 79 and to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, \add and\add* to give us food in the time of our servitude.
\v 80 Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food,
\v 81 and glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, to give us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem.
\v 82 And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,
\v 83 That the land, which you° enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.
\v 84 Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons.
\v 85 Neither shall you° seek to have peace with them forever, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.
\v 86 And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins: for you, O Lord, did make our sins light,
\v 87 and did give to us such a root: \add but\add* we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.
\v 88 \f + \fr 8:88 \ft Or, \fqa Was you not etc.\f* You was not angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name.
\v 89 O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day.
\v 90 Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.
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\v 91 \x + \xo 8:91 \xt Ezra 10:1\x* And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great throng of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.
\v 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the heathen of the land, and now is all Israel \f + \fr 8:92 \ft Or, \fqa exalted \ft Deuteronomy 28:13.\f* aloft.
\v 93 Let’s make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which \add we have taken\add* of the strangers, with their children,
\v 94 like as seems good to you, and to as many as do obey the Law of the Lord.
\v 95 Arise, and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you to do valiantly.
\v 96 So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and \add so\add* they sware.


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\v 1 \x + \xo 9:1 \xt Ezra 10:6\x* Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib,
\v 2 and lodged there, and did eat no bread nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.
\v 3 And there was made proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all those who were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem:
\v 4 and that whoever met not there within two or three days, according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from the multitude of those who were of the captivity.
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\v 5 And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem: this was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month.
\v 6 And all the multitude sat together trembling in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather.
\v 7 So Esdras arose up and said to them, you° have transgressed the law and married strange wives to increase the sins of Israel.
\v 8 And now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers,
\v 9 and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.
\v 10 Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Just as you have spoken, so will we do.
\v 11 But forasmuch as the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:
\v 12 therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,
\v 13 and with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.
\v 14 \add Then\add* Jonathan the son of Azael and \f + \fr 9:14 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Ezias.\f* Ezekias the son of Thocanus accordingly took the matter upon them: and Mosollamus and Levis and Sabbateus were assessors to them.
\v 15 And those who were of the captivity did according to all these things.
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\v 16 And Esdras the priest chose to him principal men of their families, all by name: and on the new moon of the tenth month they were shut in together to examine the matter.
\v 17 So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.
\v 18 And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found;
\v 19 of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred; \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Maaseiah.\f* Mathelas, and Eleazar, and \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Jarib.\f* Joribus, and \f + \fr 9:19 \fqa Gedaliah\f* Joadanus.
\v 20 And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and \add to offer\add* rams to make reconciliation for their error.
\v 21 And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Harim\f* Manes, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Maaseiah.\f* Sameus, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Jehiel.\f* Hiereel, and \f + \fr 9:21 \fqa Uzziah.\f* Azarias.
\v 22 And of the sons of \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Pashhur.\f* Phaisur; Elionas, Massias, Ishmael, and Nathanael, and \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Jozabad.\f* Ocidelus, and \f + \fr 9:22 \fqa Elasah.\f* Saloas.
\v 23 And of the Levites; Jozabdus, and Semeis, and \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Kelaiah.\f* Colius, who was called \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Kelita.\f* Calitas, and \f + \fr 9:23 \fqa Pethahiah.\f* Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas.
\v 24 Of the holy singers; \f + \fr 9:24 \fqa Eliashib.\f* Eliasibus, Bacchurus.
\v 25 Of the gatekeepers: Sallumus, and \f + \fr 9:25 \fqa Telem.\f* Tolbanes.
\v 26 Of Israel, of the sons of \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Parosh.\f* Phoros; \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Ramiah\f* Hiermas, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Izziah. \ft Another reading is, \fqa Iezias\f* Ieddias, and Melchias, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Mijamin.\f* Maelus, and Eleazar, and \f + \fr 9:26 \fqa Malchijah.\f* Asibas, and Banneas.
\v 27 Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and \f + \fr 9:27 \fqa Jehiel.\f* Jezrielus, and Oabdius, and Hieremoth, and \f + \fr 9:27 \fqa Abdi.\f* Aedias.
\v 28 And of the sons of \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Zattu.\f* Zamoth; \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Elioenai.\f* Eliadas, \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Eliashib.\f* Eliasimus, \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Mattaniah.\f* Othonias, Jarimoth, and \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Zabad.\f* Sabathus, and \f + \fr 9:28 \fqa Aziza.\f* Zardeus.
\v 29 Of the sons of Bebai; Joannes, and Ananias, and \f + \fr 9:29 \fqa Zabbai.\f* Jozabdus, and \f + \fr 9:29 \fqa Athlai.\f* Ematheis.
\v 30 Of the sons of \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Bani.\f* Mani; \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Meshullam.\f* Olamus, \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Malluch.\f* Mamuchus, \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Adaiah.\f* Jedeus, Jasubas, and \f + \fr 9:30 \fqa Sheal.\f* Jasaelus, and Hieremoth.
\v 31 And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moossias, Laccunus, and Naidus, and Matthanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.
\v 32 And of the sons of Annas; Elionas, and Aseas, and Melchias, and Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus.
\v 33 And of the sons of Asom; \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Mattenai.\f* Maltanneus, and \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Mattattah.\f* Mattathias, and \f + \fr 9:33 \fqa Zabad.\f* Sabanneus, Eliphalat, and Manasses, and Semei.
\v 34 And of the sons of Baani; Jeremias, Momdis, Ismaerus, Juel, Mamdai, and Pedias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and Mamnitamenus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Someis, Selemias, Nathanias: and of the sons of Ezora; Sesis, Ezril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambri, Josephus.
\v 35 And of the sons of Nooma; Mazitias, Zabadeas, Edos, Juel, Banaias.
\v 36 All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.
\v 37 And the priests and Levites, and those who were of Israel, lived in Jerusalem, and in the country, on the new moon of the seventh month, and the children of Israel in their habitations.
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\v 38 \x + \xo 9:38 \xt Nehemiah 8:1\x* And the whole multitude were gathered together with one accord into the broad place before the porch of the temple toward the east:
\v 39 and they said to Esdras the priest and reader, Bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord, the God of Israel.
\v 40 So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude both of men and women, and to all the priests, to hear the law on the new moon of the seventh month.
\v 41 And he read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning to mid-day, before both men and women; and \f + \fr 9:41 \ft Another reading is, \fqa they gave all heed.\f* all the multitude gave heed to the law.
\v 42 And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon the pulpit of wood, which was made \add for that purpose. \add*
\v 43 And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, \f + \fr 9:43 \fqa Hilkiah.\f* Ezekias, Baalsamus, upon the right hand:
\v 44 and upon his left hand, \f + \fr 9:44 \fqa Pedaiah.\f* Phaldeus, Misael, Melchias, \f + \fr 9:44 \fqa Hashuin.\f* Lothasubus, Nabarias, Zacharias.
\v 45 Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honorably in the first place before all.
\v 46 And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, Almighty.
\v 47 And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshiped the Lord.
\v 48 Also Jesus, Annus, Sarabias, Iadinus, Jacubus, Sabateus, \f + \fr 9:48 \fqa Hodiah.\f* Auteas, Maiannas, and Calitas, Azarias, and Jozabdus, and Ananias, Phalias, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, \f + \fr 9:48 \ft Some authorities omit \fq and read...Lord.\f* and read to the multitude the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it.
\v 49 Then said Attharates to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all,
\v 50 This day is holy to the Lord; (now they all wept when they heard the law:)
\v 51 go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing;
\v 52 for the day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor.
\v 53 So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy; be not sorrowful.
\v 54 Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give portions to those who had nothing, and to make great cheer;
\v 55 because they \f + \fr 9:55 \ft Or, \fqa were inspired by\f* understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.


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\toc1 The Prayer of Manasses King of Judah when He was Held Captive in Babylon
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\mt1 PRAYER OF MANASSES
\mt2 KING OF JUDAH,
\mt3 WHEN HE WAS HELD CAPTIVE IN BABYLON
\ip \bk The Prayer of Manasses\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is included in an appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible.


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\v 1 O LORD Almighty, that are in heaven, you God of our fathers, of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;
\v 2 who have made heaven and earth, with all the \f + \fr 1:2 \ft Or, \fqa order \ft Or, \fqa array \ft Genesis 2:1 (Sept.).\f* ornament thereof;
\v 3 who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment; who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name;
\v 4 whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power;
\v 5 for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening toward sinners is importable:
\v 6 your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;
\v 7 for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and repent \f + \fr 1:7 \ft Gr. \fqa of the evils of men.\f* of bringing evils upon men.
\v 8 \f + \fr 1:8 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa You... saved.\f*You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you: and of your infinite mercies have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, that are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance to me that am a sinner:
\v 9 for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, \f + \fr 1:9 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa O Lord... multiplied.\f* O Lord: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities.
\v 10 I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I can’t lift up my head \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Some authorities omit \fqa by reason of my sins.\f*by reason of my sins, neither have I any respite: for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: \f + \fr 1:10 \ft The Alex. MS. omits \fqa I did... commandments.\f*I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied \f + \fr 1:10 \ft Or, \fqa stumbling blocks\f*detestable things.
\v 11 Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.
\v 12 I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities:
\v 13 but, I humbly beseech you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with my iniquities. Be not angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, \f + \fr 1:13 \ft Another reading is, \fqa O God.\f* O Lord, are the God of those who repent;
\v 14 and in me you will show all your goodness: for you will save me, that am unworthy, according to your great mercy.
\v 15 And I will praise you forever all the days of my life: for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen.


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\d This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra,\f + \fr 1:0 \ft or, supernumerary\f* composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath.
\q1
\v 1 I was small among my brothers,
\q2 and youngest in my father’s house.
\q2 I tended my father’s sheep.
\q1
\v 2 My hands formed a musical instrument,
\q2 and my fingers tuned a lute.
\q1
\v 3 Who shall tell my Lord?
\q2 The Lord himself, he himself hears.
\q1
\v 4 He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep,
\q2 and he anointed me with his anointing oil.
\q1
\v 5 My brothers were handsome and tall;
\q2 but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them.
\q1
\v 6 I went out to meet the Philistine,
\q2 and he cursed me by his idols.
\q1
\v 7 But I drew his own sword and beheaded him,
\q2 and removed reproach from the children of Israel.


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\ip \bk The Third Book of the Maccabees\bk* is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is considered to be apocrypha by most other church traditions.


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\v 1 Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.
\v 2 And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.
\v 3 But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.
\v 4 A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold.
\v 5 It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.
\v 6 Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them.
\v 7 By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence.
\v 8 The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.
\v 9 Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,
\v 10 he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself.
\v 11 And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.
\v 12 Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honor, I ought not to be.
\v 13 And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbade him?
\v 14 He was thoroughly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this.
\v 15 Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?
\v 16 And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears,
\v 17 then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event.
\v 18 Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.
\v 19 Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner.
\v 20 New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardor which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.
\v 21 Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.
\v 22 Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.
\v 23 Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defense of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before.
\v 24 During this time the multitude kept on praying.
\v 25 The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed.
\v 26 He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design.
\v 27 Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.
\v 28 Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued.
\v 29 Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.


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\v 1 Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication:
\v 2 O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength.
\v 3 It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence.
\v 4 It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood.
\v 5 It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone.
\v 6 You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.
\v 7 And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation.
\v 8 These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty.
\v 9 You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name.
\v 10 And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer.
\v 11 Truly you are faithful and true.
\v 12 And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers,
\v 13 see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.
\v 14 We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty.
\v 15 Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men.
\v 16 But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you did sanctify this place.
\v 17 Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,
\v 18 We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.
\v 19 Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour.
\v 20 Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.
\v 21 At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.
\v 22 Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.
\v 23 His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him.
\v 24 When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.
\v 25 He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;
\v 26 and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will.
\v 27 His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:
\v 28 That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;
\v 29 that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights.
\v 30 To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians.
\v 31 Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him.
\v 32 A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration:
\v 33 cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse.


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\v 1 On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.
\v 2 While this was going on, an invidious rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.
\v 3 Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty toward the kings,
\v 4 yet, as they worshiped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium;
\v 5 although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.
\v 6 What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;
\v 7 who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them.
\v 8 Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs:
\v 9 He who knows all things, will not, \add said they,\add* disregard so great a people.
\v 10 Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.
\v 11 Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.
\v 12 King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!
\v 13 I am right well; and so, too, are my affairs.
\v 14 Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you° know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigor, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,
\v 15 we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.
\v 16 So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.
\v 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,
\v 18 they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.
\v 19 And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable.
\v 20 We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.
\v 21 Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen \add at Jerusalem,\add* but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.
\v 22 All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,
\v 23 have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.
\v 24 Having then, received certain proofs that these \add Jews\add* bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.
\v 25 As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those \add Jews\add* who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.
\v 26 For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.
\v 27 Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.
\v 28 Whoever shall inform against the \add Jews,\add* besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.
\v 29 Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.
\v 30 Such was the purport of the king’s letter.


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\v 1 Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly.
\v 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.
\v 3 What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation?
\v 4 They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.
\v 5 A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.
\v 6 Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn.
\v 7 Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship.
\v 8 The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful celebration, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand.
\v 9 They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.
\v 10 The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.
\v 11 They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; no, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.
\v 12 When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims,
\v 13 was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one bit milder) treatment.
\v 14 The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
\v 15 The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.
\v 16 The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.
\v 17 At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration,
\v 18 inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.
\v 19 The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said.
\v 20 They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose.
\v 21 Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.


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\v 1 Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,
\v 2 he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense \add infused\add* to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.
\v 3 The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.
\v 4 The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually.
\v 5 The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.
\v 6 The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.
\v 7 they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,
\v 8 to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them.
\v 9 Their litany so earnest went up to heaven.
\v 10 Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.
\v 11 He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.
\v 12 By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified.
\v 13 But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles.
\v 14 The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king.
\v 15 He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him.
\v 16 The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.
\v 17 This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.
\v 18 Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and inquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.
\v 19 Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends.
\v 20 The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.
\v 21 When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.
\v 22 Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.
\v 23 The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.
\v 24 The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.
\v 25 The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily.
\v 26 The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
\v 27 The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, inquired the object of this earnest preparation.
\v 28 But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose.
\v 29 Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction.
\v 30 The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows:
\v 31 Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.
\v 32 Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.
\v 33 Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.
\v 34 The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations.
\v 35 The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him.
\v 36 Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.
\v 37 And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons?
\v 38 Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow.
\v 39 His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:
\v 40 O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions.
\v 41 For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.
\v 42 The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.
\v 43 He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.
\v 44 Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.
\v 45 And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments.
\v 46 About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.
\v 47 The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned \add Jews\add*.
\v 48 But the \add Jews\add*, when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd,
\v 49 thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
\v 50 Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and
\v 51 sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades.


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\v 1 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:
\v 2 O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy,
\v 3 look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.
\v 4 You destroyed Pharaoh, with his army of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army.
\v 5 When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations.
\v 6 When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.
\v 7 It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light.
\v 8 When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.
\v 9 And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.
\v 10 If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer.
\v 11 Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.
\v 12 You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.
\v 13 Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob.
\v 14 The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you.
\v 15 Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfill this saying, O Lord.
\v 16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.
\v 17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.
\v 18 Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.
\v 19 And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.
\v 20 And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit.
\v 21 They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.
\v 22 The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.
\v 23 For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,
\v 24 You° have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you° have labored to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.
\v 25 Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?
\v 26 Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will toward us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings?
\v 27 Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.
\v 28 Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.
\v 29 These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior.
\v 30 The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.
\v 31 Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
\v 32 Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Savior. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.
\v 33 So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him.
\v 34 Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.
\v 35 But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms.
\v 36 They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.
\v 37 They requested the king to send them back to their homes.
\v 38 They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days.
\v 39 The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.
\v 40 They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away.
\v 41 The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.


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\v 1 King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.
\v 2 We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish.
\v 3 Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment.
\v 4 They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people.
\v 5 They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom.
\v 6 For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;
\v 7 and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge.
\v 8 And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past.
\v 9 For know you°, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you° well.
\v 10 When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God.
\v 11 They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.
\v 12 The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions.
\v 13 Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.
\v 14 Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;
\v 15 slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.
\v 16 They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel.
\v 17 Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,
\v 18 they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home.
\v 19 They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.
\v 20 These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.
\v 21 They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honored and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods.
\v 22 Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation.
\v 23 Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen.


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\mt1 THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS
\ip \bk The Second Book of Esdras\bk* is included in the Slavonic Bible as \bk 3 Esdras\bk*, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate Bible as \bk 4 Esdras\bk*. It is considered to be Apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary historical value.


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\v 1 The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of Ahitob,
\v 2 the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias, the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar,
\v 3 the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians.
\p
\v 4 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
\v 5 Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:
\v 6 because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have done sacrifice to strange gods.
\v 7 Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.
\v 8 Shake you then the hair of your head, and cast all evils upon them, for they have not been obedient to my law, but it is a rebellious people.
\v 9 How long shall I forbear them, to whom I have done so much good?
\v 10 I have overthrown many kings for their sakes; I have struck down Pharoah with his servants and all his army.
\v 11 I have destroyed all the nations before them, and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries.
\v 12 Speak therefore to them, saying,
\p
\v 13 The Lord says, of a truth I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made for you highways; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.
\v 14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you° forgotten me, says the Lord.
\p
\v 15 The Lord Almighty says, The quails were for a token to you; I gave you a camp for your protection, nevertheless you° murmured there:
\v 16 and you° triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but ever to this day do you° yet murmur.
\v 17 Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when you° were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you° not cry to me,
\v 18 saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.
\v 19 I had pity upon your mourning, and gave you manna for food; you° did eat angels’ bread.
\v 20 When you° were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.
\v 21 I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.
\p
\v 22 The Lord Almighty says, When you° were in the wilderness, at the bitter river, being thirsty, and blaspheming my name,
\v 23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.
\v 24 What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and I will give my name to them, that they may keep my statutes.
\v 25 Seeing you° have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you° ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.
\v 26 Whenever you° shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you° have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
\v 27 You° have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.
\p
\v 28 The Lord Almighty says, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,
\v 29 that you° would be my people, and I should be your God; that you° would be my children, and I should be your father?
\v 30 I gathered you together, as a hen \add gathers \add* her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.
\v 31 When you° offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.
\v 32 I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you° have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require \add of your hands, \add* says the Lord.
\p
\v 33 The Lord Almighty says, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.
\v 34 And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment \f + \fr 1:34 \ft Or, \fqa together with you \f* to you, and done that which is evil before me.
\v 35 I will give your houses to a people that will come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.
\v 36 They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.
\v 37 I take to witness the grace of the people that shall come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness: and though they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they shall believe the thing that I say.
\p
\v 38 And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east:
\v 39 to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,
\v 40 Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which is called also the angel of the Lord.


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\v 1 And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.
\v 2 Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my \f + \fr 10:2 \ft Lat. \fqa townsmen. \f* neighbors rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet to the second day at night.
\v 3 And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came here into this field, as you see.
\v 4 And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.
\p
\v 5 Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and answered her in anger, and said,
\v 6 You foolish woman above all other, see you not our mourning, and what has happened to us?
\v 7 how that Sion the mother of us all is full of sorrow, and much humbled.
\v 8 \f + \fr 10:8 \ft See the Oriental versions. The Latin is corrupt. \f* It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but you sorrowest for one son.
\v 9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.
\v 10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
\v 11 Who then should make more mourning, \f + \fr 10:11 \ft So the Syriac. \f* she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?
\v 12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:
\v 13 but \add it is with \add* the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:
\v 14 then say I to you, Just as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
\v 15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.
\v 16 For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.
\v 17 Go your way then into the city to your husband.
\p
\v 18 And she said to me, “I won’t do that. I will not go into the city, but I will die here.”
\p
\v 19 So I proceeded to speak further to her, and said,
\v 20 Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
\v 21 For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
\v 22 our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;
\v 23 and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of those who hate us.
\v 24 You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.
\p
\v 25 And it came to pass, while I was talking with her, behold, her face upon a sudden shined exceedingly, and her countenance glistered like lightning, so that I was sore afraid \f + \fr 10:25 \ft The Syriac has \fqa to draw near to her, and my heart was greatly astonied, and when I mused etc. \f* of her, and mused what this might be;
\v 26 and, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.
\v 27 And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared to me no more, but there was a city built, and a place showed itself from large foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
\v 28 Where is Uriel the angel, who came to me at the first? for he has caused me to fall into this great trance, and my end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.
\v 29 And as I was speaking these words, behold, the angel who had come to me at the first came to me, and he looked upon me:
\v 30 and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,
\v 31 What ails you? and why are you so disquieted? and why is your understanding troubled, and the thoughts of your heart?
\v 32 And I said, Because you have forsaken me: yet I did according to your words, and went into the field, and, behold, I have seen, and yet see, that which I am not able to express.
\v 33 And he said to me, Stand up like a man, and I will advise you.
\v 34 Then said I, Speak on, my Lord; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.
\v 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.
\v 36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?
\v 37 Now therefore I beseech you to show your servant concerning this trance.
\p
\v 38 And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.
\v 39 He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.
\v 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision.
\v 41 The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:
\v 42 but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:
\v 43 and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:
\v 44 This woman, whom you saw, is \f + \fr 10:44 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* Sion, \f + \fr 10:44 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* whom you now see as a city built;
\v 45 and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, \add it is, \add* because there were three \f + \fr 10:45 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.
\v 46 And it came to pass after three \f + \fr 10:46 \ft So the Syriac and other versions. The Latin is incorrect. \f* thousand years that Solomon built the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.
\v 47 And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
\v 48 And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
\v 49 And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; \f + \fr 10:49 \ft Omitted in the Oriental versions. \f* these were the things to be opened to you.
\v 50 For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the attractiveness of her beauty:
\v 51 and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was built:
\v 52 for I knew that the Most High would show this to you.
\v 53 Therefore I commanded you to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.
\v 54 For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be showed, the work of no man’s building could stand.
\v 55 Therefore fear you not, nor let your heart be affrighted, but go your way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as your eyes be able to see:
\v 56 and then shall you hear as much as your ears may comprehend.
\v 57 For you are blessed above many, and with the Most High are called by name, like as but few.
\v 58 But tomorrow at night you shall remain here;
\v 59 and so shall the Most High show you those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do to those who dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.


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\v 1 And it came to pass the second night that I saw a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.
\v 2 And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of heaven blew on her, \f + \fr 11:2 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. The Latin has only \fqa and were gathered together. \f* and the clouds were gathered together against her.
\v 3 And I saw, and out of her wings there grew \add other \add* wings near them; and they became little wings and small.
\v 4 But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other heads, yet rested it with them.
\v 5 Moreover I saw, and, behold, the eagle flew with her wings, to reign over the earth, and over those who dwell therein.
\v 6 And I saw how all things under heaven were subject to her, and no man spoke against her, no, not one creature upon earth.
\v 7 And I saw, and, behold, the eagle rose upon her talons, and uttered her voice to her wings, saying,
\v 8 Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:
\v 9 but let the heads be preserved for the last.
\v 10 And I saw, and, behold, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.
\v 11 And I counted \f + \fr 11:11 \ft The Syriac has \fqa her little wings, and, etc. \f* her wings that were near the other, and, behold, there were eight of them.
\v 12 And I saw, and, behold, on the right side there arose one wing, and reigned over all the earth;
\v 13 and so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and it appeared not, so that the place thereof appeared no more: and the next following rose up, and reigned, and it ruled a great time;
\v 14 and it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, so that it appeared no more, like as the first.
\v 15 And, behold, there came a voice to it, and said,
\v 16 Hear you that have borne rule over the earth all this time: this I proclaim to you, before you shall appear no more,
\v 17 There shall none after you attain to your time, neither to the half thereof.
\v 18 Then arose the third, and had the rule as the others before, and it also appeared no more.
\v 19 So went it with all the wings one after another, as that every one bare rule, and then appeared no more.
\v 20 And I saw, and, behold, in process of time the \f + \fr 11:20 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* wings that followed were set up upon the \f + \fr 11:20 \ft The Aethiopic has \fqa left. \f* right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
\v 21 some also of them were set up, but ruled not.
\v 22 After this I saw, and, behold, the twelve wings appeared no more, nor two of the little wings:
\v 23 and there was no more left upon the eagle’s body, but the three heads that rested, and six little wings.
\v 24 And I saw, and, behold, two little wings divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: but four remained in their place.
\v 25 And I saw, and, behold, these \f + \fr 11:25 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* under wings thought to set up themselves, and to have the rule.
\v 26 And I saw, and, behold, there was one set up, but within a while it appeared no more.
\v 27 A second also, and it was sooner away than the first.
\v 28 And I saw, and, behold, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:
\v 29 and while they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, \add namely, it \add* that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two \add other \add* heads.
\v 30 And I saw how it joined the two \add other \add* heads with it.
\v 31 And, behold, the head was turned with those who were with it, and did eat up the two \f + \fr 11:31 \ft The Syriac has \fqa little wings. \f* under wings that thought to have reigned.
\v 32 But this head held the whole earth in possession, and bare rule over those that dwell therein with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.
\v 33 And after this I saw, and, behold, the head also that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.
\v 34 But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort reigned over the earth, and over those that dwell therein.
\v 35 And I saw, and, behold, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side.
\p
\v 36 Then I heard a voice, which said to me, Look before you, and consider the thing that you see.
\v 37 And I saw, and, behold, as it were a lion roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,
\v 38 Hear you, I will talk with you, and the Most High shall say to you,
\v 39 Are not you it that remain of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of my times might come through them?
\v 40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and held the world in governance with great trembling, and the whole compass of the earth with grievous oppression; and so long time lived he upon the earth with deceit.
\v 41 And you have judged the earth, but not with truth.
\v 42 For you have afflicted the meek, you have hurt the peaceful, you have hated those who speak truth, you have loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of those who brought forth fruit, and cast down the walls of such as did you no harm.
\v 43 Therefore is your insolent dealing come up to the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty.
\v 44 The Most High also has looked upon his times, and, behold, they are ended, and his ages are fulfilled.
\v 45 And therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your vain body:
\v 46 that all the earth may be refreshed, and be eased, being delivered from your violence, and that she may hope for the judgement and mercy of him that made her.


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\v 1 And it came to pass, whiles the lion spoke these words to the eagle, I saw,
\v 2 and, behold, the head that remained appeared no more, and \f + \fr 12:2 \ft So the chief Oriental versions. \f* the two wings which went over to it arose and set themselves up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and full of uproar.
\v 3 And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burned, so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I by reason of great ecstasy of mind, and from great fear, and said to my spirit,
\v 4 Behold, this have you done to me, in that you search out the ways of the Most High.
\v 5 Behold, I am yet weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; nor is there the least strength in me, for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night.
\v 6 Therefore I will now beseech the Most High, that he will strengthen me to the end.
\v 7 And I said, O Lord that bear rule, if I have found favor in your sight, and if I am justified with you above many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before your face;
\v 8 strengthen me then, and show me your servant the interpretation and plain meaning of this fearful vision, that you may perfectly comfort my soul.
\v 9 For you have judged me worthy to show me the end of time and the last times.
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\v 10 And he said to me, This is the interpretation of this vision which you saw:
\v 11 The eagle, whom you saw come up from the sea, is the fourth kingdom which appeared in vision to your brother Daniel.
\v 12 But it was not expounded to him, as I now expound it to you or have expounded it.
\v 13 Behold, the days come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
\v 14 Twelve kings will reign in it, one after another:
\v 15 whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have a longer time than \add any of \add* the twelve.
\v 16 This is the interpretation of the twelve wings, which you saw.
\v 17 And whereas you heard a voice which spoke, not going out from the heads, but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
\v 18 That \f + \fr 12:18 \ft The Oriental versions have\fqa in the midst of. \f* after the time of that kingdom there shall arise no small contentions, and it shall stand in peril of falling: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to its first estate.
\v 19 And whereas you saw the eight under wings sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
\v 20 That in it there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift.
\v 21 And two of them shall perish, when the middle time approaches: four shall be kept for a while until the time of the ending thereof shall approach: but two shall be kept to the end.
\v 22 And whereas you saw three heads resting, this is the interpretation:
\v 23 In the last days thereof shall the Most High raise up three \f + \fr 12:23 \ft The Oriental versions have \fqa kings \f* kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall bear rule over the earth,
\v 24 and over those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
\v 25 For these are those who shall accomplish her wickedness, and that shall finish her last end.
\v 26 And whereas you saw that the great head appeared no more, \add it signifies \add* that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
\v 27 But for the two that remained, the sword shall devour them.
\v 28 For the sword of the one shall devour him that was with him: but he also shall fall by the sword in the last days.
\v 29 And whereas you saw two under wings passing \f + \fr 12:29 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa over the head. \f* over to the head that is on the right side,
\v 30 this is the interpretation: These are they, whom the Most High has kept to his end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as you saw.
\v 31 And the lion, whom you saw rising up out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness, and all her words which you have heard;
\v 32 this is the anointed one, whom the Most High has kept to the end \f + \fr 12:32 \ft The words in brackets are added from the Syriac. \f* [of days, who shall spring up out of the seed of David, and he shall come and speak] to them and reprove them for their wickedness and unrighteousness, and shall \f + \fr 12:32 \ft The Syriac has \fqa set in order. \ft See Psalm 1:21. \f* heap up before them their contemptuous dealings.
\v 33 For at the first he shall set them alive in his judgement, and when he has reproved them, he shall destroy them.
\v 34 For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been preserved throughout my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the end, even the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken to you from the beginning.
\v 35 This is the dream that you saw, and this is the interpretation thereof:
\v 36 and you only have been meet to know the secret of the Most High.
\v 37 Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put them in a secret place:
\v 38 and you shall teach them to the wise of your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets.
\v 39 But wait you here yourself yet seven days more, that there may be showed to you whatever it pleases the Most High to show you. And he departed from me.
\p
\v 40 And it came to pass, when all the people \f + \fr 12:40 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa heard. \f* saw that the seven days were past, and I had not come again into the city, they gathered them all together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me, and spoke to me, saying,
\v 41 What have we offended you? and what evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place?
\v 42 For of all the prophets you only are left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a lamp in a dark place, and as a haven for a ship saved from the tempest.
\v 43 Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
\v 44 If you shall forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been consumed in the burning of Sion!
\v 45 For we are not better than those who died there. And they wept with a loud voice. And I answered them, and said,
\v 46 Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob:
\v 47 for the Most High has you in remembrance, and the Mighty has not forgotten you \f + \fr 12:47 \ft So the Syriac. \f* forever.
\v 48 As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.
\v 49 And now go your way every man to his own house, and after these days I will come to you.
\v 50 So the people went their way into the city, like as I said to them:
\v 51 but I sat in the field seven days, as \add the angel \add* commanded me; and in those days I did eat only of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs.


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\v 1 And it came to pass after seven days, I dreamed a dream by night:
\v 2 and, behold, there arose a wind from the sea, that it moved all the waves thereof.
\v 3 And I saw, and, behold, \f + \fr 13:3 \ft The words in brackets are added from the Syriac. \f* [this wind caused to come up from the midst of the sea as it were the likeness of a man, and I saw, and, behold,] that man \f + \fr 13:3 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa grew strong \f* flew with the clouds of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all things trembled that were seen under him.
\v 4 And whenever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burned that heard his voice, like as the \f + \fr 13:4 \ft So the Syriac and other Oriental versions.\f* wax melts when it feels the fire.
\v 5 And after this I saw, and, behold, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of heaven, to make war against the man that came out of the sea.
\v 6 And I saw, and, behold, he carved himself a great mountain, and flew upon it.
\v 7 But I sought to see the region or place whereout the mountain was graven, and I could not.
\v 8 And after this I saw, and, behold, all they which were gathered together to fight against him were sore afraid, and yet dared fight.
\v 9 And, behold, as he saw the assault of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held spear, nor any instrument of war:
\v 10 but only I saw how that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a flood of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he cast forth sparks \f + \fr 13:10 \ft So the Syriac and Arabic. \f* of the storm.
\v 11 And these were all mixed together; the flood of fire, the flaming breath, and the great storm; and fell upon the assault of the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust of ashes and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was amazed.
\v 12 Afterward I saw the same man come down from the mountain, and call to him another multitude which was peaceful.
\v 13 And there came \f + \fr 13:13 \ft Lat. \fqa the faces of many people. \f* much people to him, whereof some were glad, some were sorry, some of them were bound, and other some brought of those who were offered: then through great fear I awaked, and prayed to the Most High, and said,
\v 14 You have showed your servant these wonders from the beginning, and have counted me worthy that you should receive my prayer:
\v 15 and now show me moreover the interpretation of this dream.
\v 16 For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who shall be left in those days! and much more woe to those who are not left!
\v 17 for those who were not left shall be in heaviness,
\v 18 understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days, but not attaining to them.
\v 19 But woe to them also that are left, for this cause; for they shall see great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
\v 20 Yet is it \f + \fr 13:20 \ft Lat. \fqa easier. \f* better for one to be in peril and to come into \f + \fr 13:20 \ft So the Syriac. \f* these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that \f + \fr 13:20 \ft So the Syriac. \f* shall happen in the last days.
\p And he answered to me, and said,
\v 21 The interpretation of the vision shall I tell you, and I will also open to you the things whereof you have made mention.
\v 22 Whereas you have spoken of those who are left behind, this is the interpretation:
\v 23 He that shall \f + \fr 13:23 \ft So the Syriac. \f* endure the peril in that time shall keep those who are fallen into danger, even such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
\v 24 Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than those who are dead.
\v 25 These are the interpretations of the vision: Whereas you saw a man coming up from the midst of the sea,
\v 26 this is he whom the Most High has kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order those who are left behind.
\v 27 And whereas you saw, that out of his mouth there came wind, and fire, and storm;
\v 28 and whereas he held neither spear, nor any instrument of war, but destroyed the assault of that multitude which came to fight against him; this is the interpretation:
\v 29 Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver those who are upon the earth.
\v 30 And there shall come astonishment of mind upon those who dwell on the earth.
\v 31 And one shall think to war against another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom.
\v 32 And it shall be, when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, then shall my Son be revealed, whom you saw \add as \add* a man ascending.
\v 33 And it shall be, when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the battle they have one against another.
\v 34 And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come, and to fight against him.
\v 35 But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
\v 36 And Sion shall come, and shall be showed to all men, being prepared and built, like as you saw the mountain graven without hands.
\v 37 And this my Son shall rebuke the nations which are come for their wickedness, \add with plagues \add* that are like to a tempest;
\v 38 and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.
\v 39 And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;
\v 40 these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
\v 41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,
\v 42 that they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
\v 43 And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates.
\v 44 For the Most High then did signs for them, and stayed the springs of the River, till they were passed over.
\v 45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called \f + \fr 13:45 \ft That is, \fqa another land. \ft See Deuteronomy 29:28. \f* Arzareth.
\v 46 Then lived they there until the latter time; and now when they begin to come again,
\v 47 the Most High stays the springs of the River again, that they may go through: therefore saw you the multitude gathered together with peace.
\v 48 But those that be left behind of your people are those who are found within my holy border.
\v 49 It shall be therefore when he shall destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend the people that remain.
\v 50 And then shall he show them very many wonders.
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\v 51 Then said I, O Lord that bear rule, show me this: wherefore I have seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea.
\v 52 And he said to me, like as one can neither seek out nor know what is in the deep of the sea, even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the time of \f + \fr 13:52 \ft So the Oriental versions. The Latin omits \fqa his. \f* his day.
\v 53 This is the interpretation of the dream which you saw, and for this you only are enlightened herein.
\v 54 For you have forsaken your own \add ways, \add* and applied your diligence to mine, and have sought out my law.
\v 55 Your life have you ordered in wisdom, and have called understanding your mother.
\v 56 And therefore have I showed you this; for there is a reward laid up with the Most High: and it shall be, after other three days I will speak other things to you, and declare to you mighty and wondrous things.
\v 57 Then went I forth and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time;
\v 58 and because he governs the time, and such things as fall in their seasons. And there I sat three days.


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\v 1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush near me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
\v 2 And I said, Here am I, Lord. And I stood up upon my feet.
\v 3 Then said he to me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself, and talked with Moses, when my people were in bondage in Egypt:
\v 4 and I sent him, and \f + \fr 14:4 \ft Another reading is. \fqa I. \f* he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;
\v 5 and told him many wondrous things, and showed him the secrets of the times, and the end of the seasons; and commanded him, saying,
\v 6 These words shall you publish openly, and these shall you hide.
\v 7 And now I say to you,
\v 8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have showed, and the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard:
\v 9 for you shall be taken away from men, and from henceforth you shall remain with my Son, and with such as be like you, until the times be ended.
\v 10 For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old.
\v 11 \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Verses 11, 12 are omitted in the Syriac. The Aethiopic has \fqa For the world is divided into ten parts, and is come to the tenth: and half of the tenth remains. Now etc. \f* For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already, \f + \fr 14:11 \ft Lat. \fqa and. \f* even the half of the tenth part:
\v 12 and there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.
\v 13 Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, \f + \fr 14:13 \ft The Latin alone omits \fqa and...wise. \f* and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,
\v 14 and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,
\v 15 and lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and haste you to remove from these times.
\v 16 For yet worse evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.
\v 17 For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.
\v 18 For the truth will withdraw itself further off, and falsehood will be hard at hand: for now hastens \f + \fr 14:18 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* the eagle to come, which you saw in vision.
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\v 19 Then answered I and said, \f + \fr 14:19 \ft The Latin omits \fqa I will speak. \f* I will speak before you, O Lord.
\v 20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people that now be: but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? for the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
\v 21 For your law is burned, therefore no man knows the things that are done of you, or the works that shall be done.
\v 22 But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that they which would live in the latter days may live.
\v 23 And he answered me and said, Go your way, gather the people together, and say to them, that they seek you not for forty days.
\v 24 But look you prepare you many tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, which are ready to write swiftly;
\v 25 and come here, and I shall light a lamp of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be ended which you shall write.
\v 26 And when you have done, some things shall you publish openly, and some things shall you deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow this hour shall you begin to write.
\p
\v 27 Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
\v 28 Hear these words, O Israel.
\v 29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
\v 30 and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you° also have transgressed after them.
\v 31 Then was \f + \fr 14:31 \ft Another reading is, \fqa a land in the land of Sion. \f* the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you° yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
\v 32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.
\v 33 And now you° are here, and your kindred are among you.
\v 34 Therefore if so be that you° will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you° shall be kept alive, and after death you° shall obtain mercy.
\v 35 For after death shall the judgement come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
\v 36 Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
\v 37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went forth into the field, and remained there.
\v 38 And it came to pass on the next day that, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink.
\v 39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, there was reached to me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the color of it was like fire.
\v 40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory:
\v 41 and my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
\v 42 The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in \f + \fr 14:42 \ft So the Oriental versions. \f* characters which they knew not, and they sat forty days: now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread.
\v 43 As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I held not my tongue.
\v 44 So in forty days were written \f + \fr 14:44 \ft So the Oriental versions. The copies of the Latin vary and are corrupt. \f* fourscore and fourteen books.
\v 45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, The first that you have written publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read it:
\v 46 but keep the seventy last, that you may deliver them to such as be wise among your people:
\v 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
\v 48 And I did so.


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\v 1 Behold, speak you in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in your mouth, says the Lord:
\v 2 and cause you them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
\v 3 Don’t be afraid of their imaginations against you, don’t let the unbelief of them that speak against you trouble you.
\v 4 For all the unbelievers shall die in their unbelief.
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\v 5 Behold, says the Lord, I bring evils upon the whole earth; sword and famine, and death and destruction.
\v 6 For wickedness has prevailed over every land, and their hurtful works are come to the full.
\v 7 Therefore says the Lord,
\v 8 I will hold my peace no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in these things, which they wickedly practice: behold, the innocent and righteous blood cries to me, and the souls of the righteous cry out continually.
\v 9 I will surely avenge them, says the Lord, and will receive to me all the innocent blood from among them.
\v 10 Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
\v 11 but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with a high arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as aforetime, and will destroy all the land thereof.
\v 12 Let Egypt mourn, and the foundations thereof, for the plague of the chastisement and the punishment that God shall bring upon it.
\v 13 Let the farmers that till the ground mourn: for their seeds shall fail and their trees shall be laid waste through the blasting and hail, and a terrible star.
\v 14 Woe to the world and those who dwell therein!
\v 15 for the sword and their destruction draws near, and nation shall rise up against nation to battle with weapons in their hands.
\v 16 For there shall be sedition among men; and waxing strong one against another, they shall not regard their king nor the chief of their great ones, in their might.
\v 17 For a man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
\v 18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, \add and \add* men shall be afraid.
\v 19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbor, but shall make an assault on their houses with the sword, and plunder their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great suffering.
\p
\v 20 Behold, says God, I call together all the kings of the earth, to stir up those who are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
\v 21 Just as they do yet this day to my chosen, so I will do also, and recompense in their bosom. The Lord God says:
\v 22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over those who shed innocent blood upon the earth.
\v 23 And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
\v 24 Woe to those who sin, and keep not my commandments! says the Lord.
\v 25 I will not spare them: go your way, you° rebellious children, defile not my sanctuary.
\v 26 For the Lord knows all those who trespass against him, therefore has he delivered them to death and destruction.
\v 27 For now are the evils come upon the whole earth, and you° shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because you° have sinned against him.
\p
\v 28 Behold, a vision horrible, and the appearance thereof from the east!
\v 29 And the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set forth the hissing of them is carried over the earth, so that all they which shall hear them may fear also and tremble.
\v 30 Also the Carmonians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians with their teeth.
\v 31 And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their \f + \fr 15:31 \ft Or, \fqa birth \f* nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
\v 32 then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.
\v 33 And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their army shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.
\v 34 Behold, clouds from the east and from the north to the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
\v 35 They shall dash one against another, and they shall pour out a plentiful \f + \fr 15:35 \ft Lat. \fqa star. \f* storm upon the earth, even their own star; and there shall be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly,
\v 36 and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hough.
\v 37 And there shall be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth: and they that see that wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall take hold upon them.
\v 38 And after this shall there be stirred up great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
\v 39 And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the star that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be violently driven toward the south and west.
\v 40 And great clouds and mighty and full of wrath shall be lifted up, and the star, that they may destroy all the earth, and those who dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent one a terrible star,
\v 41 fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters.
\v 42 And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
\v 43 And they shall go on steadfastly to Babylon, and destroy her.
\v 44 They shall come to her, and compass her about; the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heaven, and all those who are about her shall bewail her.
\v 45 And those who remain shall do service to those who have put her in fear.
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\v 46 And you, Asia, that are partaker in the beauty of Babylon, and in the glory of her person:
\v 47 woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like to her; you have decked your daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always desired you to commit whoredom withal!
\v 48 You have followed her that is hateful in all her works and inventions: therefore says God,
\v 49 I will send evils upon you; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste your houses to destruction and death.
\v 50 And the glory of your power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over you.
\v 51 You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and \add your \add* lovers you shall not be able to receive.
\v 52 Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against you, says the Lord,
\v 53 if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of your hands, and saying over their \f + \fr 15:53 \ft Lat. \fqa death.\f* dead, when you were drunken,
\v 54 Set forth the beauty of your countenance?
\v 55 The reward of a prostitute shall be in your bosom, therefore shall you receive recompense.
\v 56 Just as you shall do to my chosen, says the Lord, even so shall God do to you, and shall deliver you into mischief.
\v 57 And your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword: and your cities shall be broken down, and all your shall perish by the sword in the field.
\v 58 And those who are in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink \add their own \add* blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.
\v 59 You unhappy above all shall come and shall again receive evils.
\v 60 And in the passage they shall rush on the \f + \fr 15:60 \ft Another reading is, hateful. \f* idle city, and shall destroy some portion of your land, and mar part of your glory, and shall return again to Babylon that was destroyed.
\v 61 And you shall be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be to you as fire;
\v 62 and shall devour you, and your cities, your land, and your mountains; all your woods and your fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.
\v 63 They shall carry your children away captive, and shall plunder your wealth, and mar the glory of your face.


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\v 1 Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! woe to you, Egypt, and Syria!
\v 2 Gird up yourselves with sackcloth and garments of hair, and bewail your children, and lament; for your destruction is at hand.
\v 3 A sword is sent upon you, and who is he that may turn it back?
\v 4 A fire is sent upon you, and who is he that may quench it?
\v 5 Evils are sent upon you, and who is he that may drive them away?
\v 6 May one drive away a hungry lion in the wood? or may one quench the fire in stubble, when it has once begun to burn?
\v 7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?
\v 8 The Lord God sends the evils, and who shall drive them away?
\v 9 A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?
\v 10 He shall cast lightning, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not tremble?
\v 11 The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly broken in pieces at his presence?
\v 12 The earth quakes, and the foundations thereof; the sea arises up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it shall be troubled, and the fishes thereof also, at the presence of the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
\v 13 for strong is his right hand that bends the bow, his arrows that he shoots are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
\v 14 Behold, the evils are sent forth, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.
\v 15 The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundations of the earth.
\v 16 Just as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returns not backward, even so the evils that are sent forth upon earth shall not return again.
\v 17 Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?
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\v 18 The beginning of sorrows, and \add there shall be \add* great mourning; the beginning of famine, and many shall perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils, and all shall tremble! what shall they do in \add all \add* this when the evils shall come?
\v 19 Behold, famine and plague, suffering and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment.
\v 20 But for all these things they shall not turn them from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
\v 21 Behold, food shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.
\v 22 For many of those who dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the famine, shall the sword destroy.
\v 23 And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be left desolate, and the cities thereof shall be cast down.
\v 24 There shall be no husbandman left to till the earth, and to sow it.
\v 25 The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
\v 26 The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for in \add all \add* places there shall be a great forsaking:
\v 27 for one man shall desire to see another, or to hear his voice.
\v 28 For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
\v 29 As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there be left three or four olives,
\v 30 or as when a vineyard is gathered there be some clusters left by those who diligently seek through the vineyard;
\v 31 even so in those days there shall be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword.
\v 32 And the earth shall be left desolate, and the fields thereof shall be for briers, and her ways and all her paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep shall pass therethrough.
\v 33 The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
\v 34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
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\v 35 Hear now these things, and understand them, you° servants of the Lord.
\v 36 Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaks.
\v 37 Behold, the evils draw near, and are not slack.
\v 38 Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours doleful pains surround her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no waiting for a moment:
\v 39 even so shall not the evils be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall groan, and sorrows shall take hold of it on every side.
\v 40 O my people, hear my word: make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
\v 41 He that sells, let him be as he that flees away: and he that buys, as one that will lose:
\v 42 he that occupies merchandise, as he that has no profit by it: and he that builds, as he that shall not dwell therein:
\v 43 he that sows, as if he should not reap: so also he that prunes \add the vines, \add* as he that shall not gather the grapes:
\v 44 those who marry, as those who shall get no children; and those who marry not, as the widowed.
\v 45 Inasmuch as those who labor labor in vain;
\v 46 for strangers shall reap their fruits, and plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine shall they beget their children:
\v 47 and those who traffick traffick to become a plunder: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,
\v 48 the more I will hate them for their sins, says the Lord.
\v 49 Just as a right honest and virtuous woman hates a prostitute,
\v 50 so shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decks herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he comes that shall defend him that diligently searches out every sin upon earth.
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\v 51 Therefore be you° not like thereto, nor to the works thereof.
\v 52 For yet a little while, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign over us.
\v 53 Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.
\v 54 Behold, the Lord knows all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts.
\v 55 Who said, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was made.
\v 56 And at his word were the stars established, and he knows the number of the stars.
\v 57 Who searches the deep, and the treasures thereof; he has measured the sea, and what it contains.
\v 58 Who has shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word has he hanged the earth upon the waters.
\v 59 Who spreads out the heaven like a vault; upon the waters has he founded it.
\v 60 Who has made in the desert springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, to send forth rivers from the height to water the earth.
\v 61 Who framed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding,
\v 62 yes, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things, and searches out hidden things in hidden places,
\v 63 surely he knows your imagination, and what you° think in your hearts. Woe to those who sin, and would fain hide their sin!
\v 64 Forasmuch as the Lord will exactly search out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.
\v 65 And when your sins are brought forth before men, you° shall be ashamed, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers in that day.
\v 66 What will you° do? or how will you° hide your sins before God and his angels?
\v 67 Behold, God is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them forever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all suffering.
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\v 68 For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed you with that which is slain to idols.
\v 69 And those who consent to them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and be trodden under foot of them.
\v 70 For there shall be \f + \fr 16:70 \ft The Latin is uncertain. \f* in various places, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.
\v 71 They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but spoiling and destroying those who still fear the Lord.
\v 72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.
\v 73 Then shall be manifest the trial of my elect; even as the gold that is tried in the fire.
\v 74 Hear, O you° my elect, says the Lord: behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them.
\v 75 Be you° not afraid, neither doubt; for God is your guide:
\v 76 and you° who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, don’t let your sins weigh you down, and don’t let your iniquities lift up themselves.
\v 77 Woe to those who are fast bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities, like as a field is fast bound with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!
\v 78 \f + \fr 16:78 \ft Or, \fqa They are \ft every one \fqa shut out, etc. \f* It is even shut off, and given up to be consumed of fire.


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\v 1 The Lord says, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.
\v 2 The mother that bare them says to them, go your way, O my children; for I am a widow and forsaken.
\v 3 I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you° have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.
\v 4 But what shall I now do to you? for I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
\v 5 As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of \add these \add* children, because they would not keep my covenant,
\v 6 that you bring them to confusion, and their mother to a plunder, that there may be no offspring of them.
\v 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be blotted out of the earth: for they have despised my \f + \fr 2:7 \ft Another reading is, \fqa sacrament, \ft or, \fqa oath \f* covenant.
\v 8 Woe to you, Assur, you that hide the unrighteous with you! O you wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah;
\v 9 whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so I will also do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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\v 10 The Lord says to Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.
\v 11 I will also take their glory me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
\v 12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savor; they shall neither labor, nor be weary.
\v 13 \f + \fr 2:13 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Go. \f* Ask, and you° shall receive: pray for few days to you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
\v 14 Take heaven and earth to witness, take them to witness; for I have given up the evil, and created the good: for I live, says the Lord.
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\v 15 Mother, embrace your children; I will bring them out with gladness like a dove; establish their feet; for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
\v 16 And I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs: for I \f + \fr 2:16 \ft Or, \fqa recognize \f* have known my name in them.
\v 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of the children: for I have chosen you, says the Lord.
\v 18 For your help I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,
\v 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.
\v 20 Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
\v 21 heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.
\v 22 Keep the old and young within your walls.
\v 23 Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.
\v 24 Stay still, O my people, and take your rest, for your quietness shall come.
\v 25 Nourish your children, O you good nurse, and establish their feet.
\v 26 As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.
\v 27 Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.
\v 28 The nations shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord.
\v 29 My hands shall cover you, so that your children see not \f + \fr 2:29 \ft Lat. \fqa Gehenna. \f* hell.
\v 30 Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.
\v 31 Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.
\v 32 Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
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\v 33 I Esdras received a charge from the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go to Israel; but when I came to them, they would none of me, and rejected the commandment of the Lord.
\v 34 And therefore I say to you, O you° nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
\v 35 Be ready to the rewards of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore.
\v 36 Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I call to witness my savior openly.
\v 37 O receive that which is given you of the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him that has called you to heavenly kingdoms.
\v 38 Arise up and stand, and behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;
\v 39 those who withdrew them from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments of the Lord.
\v 40 \f + \fr 2:40 \ft Another reading is, \fqa Take. \f* Look upon your number, O Sion, and make up the reckoning of those of your that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
\v 41 The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that your people, which have been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.
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\v 42 I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
\v 43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted. I marveled greatly at this.
\v 44 So I asked the angel, and said, What are these, my Lord?
\v 45 He answered and said to me, These be those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
\v 46 Then said I to the angel, What young man is he that sets crowns upon them, and gives them palms in their hands?
\v 47 So he answered and said to me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend those who stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.
\v 48 Then the angel said to me, Go your way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord God you have seen.


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\v 1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
\v 2 for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon.
\v 3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,
\v 4 O Lord that bear rule, did you not not speak at the beginning, when you did fashion the earth, and that yourself alone, and command the \f + \fr 3:4 \ft So the Syriac and Aethiopic. \f* dust.
\v 5 and it \f + \fr 3:5 \ft So the Syriac. \f* gave you Adam, a body without a soul? yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you did breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before you.
\v 6 And you led him into paradise, which your right hand did plant, before ever the earth came forward.
\v 7 And to him you gave your one commandment: which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and in his generations; and there were born of him nations and tribes, peoples and kindred, out of number.
\v 8 And every nation walked after their own will, and did ungodly things before you, and despised \add your commandments, \add* and you didn’t forbid them.
\v 9 Nevertheless again in process of time you brought the flood upon those that lived in the world, and destroyed them.
\v 10 And it came to pass that the same hap befell them; like as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
\v 11 Nevertheless one of them you left, Noah with his household, \add even \add* all the righteous men \add that came \add* of him.
\v 12 And it came to pass, that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they multiplied also children, and peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than the first.
\v 13 And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;
\v 14 and him you loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night:
\v 15 and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
\v 16 And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
\v 17 And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
\v 18 You bowed the heavens also, and did \f + \fr 3:18 \ft So some versions. Lat. \fqa set fast. \f* shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the \add course of that \add* age.
\v 19 And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
\v 20 And yet took you not away from them \add their \add* \f + \fr 3:20 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
\v 21 For the first Adam bearing a \f + \fr 3:21 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; \add and not he only, \add* but all they also that are born of him.
\v 22 Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Or, \fqa corruption \f* wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was \f + \fr 3:22 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked abode still.
\v 23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
\v 24 whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
\v 25 When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil,
\v 26 in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a \f + \fr 3:26 \ft Or, \fqa corrupt \f* wicked heart:
\v 27 and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
\v 28 And I said then in my heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?
\v 29 For it came to pass when I came here, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.
\v 30 For I have seen how you suffer them sinning, and have spared the ungodly doers, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; and you have not signified
\v 31 to any \f + \fr 3:31 \ft So the Syriac. The Latin has \fqa how this way may be left. \f* how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Sion?
\v 32 Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these \add tribes of \add* Jacob?
\v 33 And yet their reward appears not, and their labor has no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound \add in wealth, \add* and think not upon your commandments.
\v 34 Weigh you therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall it be found which way the scale inclines.
\v 35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or what nation has so kept your commandments?
\v 36 You shall find that men \add who may be reckoned \add* by name have kept your precepts; but nations you shall not find.


