2 Maccabees 2:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ as he promised through the Law. We have hope in God that he will quickly extend mercy and gather us from everywhere under heaven into the holy place. He has brought us out of great evils and purified the place.

Author’s preface

¹⁹ This scroll is about the stories of Judas the Maccabee and his brothers, the purification of the great temple, and the restoration of the altar. ²⁰ It will tell of the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and his son Eupator,