2 Maccabees
King James Version (KJV)
2 Maccabees 1:8
“And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.”
King James Version (KJV)
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2 Maccabees 1:8 Context
5And hear your prayers, and be at one with you, and never forsake you in time of trouble. 6And now we be here praying for you. 7What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom, 8And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves. 9And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Casleu. 10In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt: 11Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.
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And burnt the porch, and shed innocent blood. Then we prayed vnto the Lord, and were heard: we offered also sacrifices, and fine flowre, and lighted the lampes, and set forth the loaues.
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