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2 Maccabees 10:23-25
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 10:23-25
New Catholic Bible
23 Since he was successful in everything he undertook by force of arms, he slaughtered more than twenty thousand men in the two strongholds.
24 Judas Defeats Timothy and Captures Gezer.[a] Timothy, who had been defeated by the Jews once before, now gathered an enormous force of mercenaries and considerable numbers of cavalry from Asia. Then he marched into Judea, intending to take it by storm. 25 At his approach, Maccabeus and his men made supplication to God, sprinkling dust upon their heads and girding their loins with sackcloth.
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- 2 Maccabees 10:24 The sequence of events is not respected. Later on (2 Mac 12:2, 10, 18), we will encounter the Timothy who is killed in this episode, and Gezer will be truly conquered only at the hands of Simon after the death of Judas (1 Mac 13:43-48). All this is of no importance for the author: grouping together events (even though some occurred later), he constructs a eulogy in honor of his hero.
