Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition. 2 Maccabees 10:1But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. 2 Maccabees 10:2 But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. 2 Maccabees 10:4 And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men. 2 Maccabees 10:5 Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. Context 2 Maccabees 10…2But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. 3And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition. 4And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 10:1 But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. 2 Maccabees 10:2 But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. 2 Maccabees 10:4 And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men. 2 Maccabees 10:5 Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. |
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