2 Maccabees 6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

2 Maccabees 6The Suppression of Judaism

1 senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and no longer to live by the laws of God,

2 were taken, under bitter constraint, to partake of the sacrifices, and when a festival of Dionysus was celebrated, they were compelled to wear wreaths of ivy and to walk in the procession in honor of Dionysus.

8 a decree was issued to the neighboring Greek cities that they should adopt the same policy toward the Jews and make them partake of the sacrifices

9 at once to the rack.

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304 Macc 6.27; Heb 11.35, 36When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: “It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.”

31 v 28 ; Heb 11.39; 12.1So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation.