Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were very liberal towards their burial. 2 Maccabees 4:47So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death. 2 Maccabees 4:48 Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. 2 Maccabees 4:50 And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens. 2 Maccabees 5:1 At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into Egypt. Context 2 Maccabees 4…48Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. 49Wherefore even the Tyrians, being moved with indignation, were very liberal towards their burial. 50And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 4:47 So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death. 2 Maccabees 4:48 Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. 2 Maccabees 4:50 And so through the covetousness of them that were in power, Menelaus continued in authority, increasing in malice to the betraying of the citizens. 2 Maccabees 5:1 At the same time Antiochus prepared for a second journey into Egypt. |