Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. 1 Maccabees 2:36But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 1 Maccabees 2:37 Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 1 Maccabees 2:39 And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly. 1 Maccabees 2:40 And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth. Context 1 Maccabees 2…37Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 38So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. 39And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 2:36 But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 1 Maccabees 2:37 Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 1 Maccabees 2:39 And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly. 1 Maccabees 2:40 And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth. |
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