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2 Maccabees 1:11-13
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 1:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 Since we have been rescued by God from grave dangers, we offer him our profuse thanks for championing our cause against the king,[a] 12 for it was he himself who drove out those who fought against the holy city.
13 When their leader marched into Persia with a force that was apparently invincible, they were decimated in the temple of the goddess Nanea[b] as the result of a deceitful scheme engineered by the priests of Nanea.
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- 2 Maccabees 1:11 The king: Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria, the persecutor of the Jews. He perished in 164 B.C. while leading a Persian invasion.
- 2 Maccabees 1:13 Nanea: an oriental goddess who is similar to the Greek goddess Artemis.
