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2 Maccabees 15 — Chapter 15

2 Maccabees · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph

1But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the sabbath day.

2Nevertheless the Yahudim (Jews) that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, has honoured with holiness above all other days.

3Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

4And when they said, There is in heaven a living Yahuah (God), and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:

5Then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king’s business. Yet he obtained not to have his wicked will done.

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