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THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 13
2 Maccabees 13 1 The coming of Eupator into Judea. 4 The death of Menelaus. 10 Maccabeus going to fight against Eupator, moves his soldiers unto prayer. 15 He kills fourteen thousand men in the tents of Antiochus. 21 Rhodocus the betrayer of the Jews is taken. IN the hundredth, forty and nine year it…
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GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD
Amazing Grace Words and Music by James McGranahan, 1840–1907 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. (Mark 16:15) Give us a watchword for the hour, a thrilling word, a word of power;A battlecry, a flaming breath that calls to conquer even death.A word to rouse the Church from rest,…
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THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 8
2 Maccabees 8 1 Judas gathers together his host. 9 Nicanor is sent against Judas. 16 Judas exhorts his soldiers to constancy. 20 Nicanor is overcome. 27 The Jews gave thanks, after they have put their enemies to flight, dividing part of the spoils unto the fatherless and unto the widows. 30 Timotheus and Bacchides…
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THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 7
2 Maccabees 7 The punishment of the seven brethren and of their mother. IT came to pass also that seven brethren, with their mother, were taken to be compelled by the King against the Law, to taste swine’s flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips. But one of them, which spake first, said thus,…
