priests, and to the Jews
that were in Egypt:

2 Mac 1:11
Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank
him highly, as having been in battle against a king.

2 Mac 1:12
For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.

2 Mac 1:13
For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with
him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of
Nanea by the deceit of Nanea's priests.

2 Mac 1:14
For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the
place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in
name of a dowry.

2 Mac 1:15
Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was
entered with a small company into the compass of the temple,
they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:

2 Mac 1:16
And opening a privy door of the roof, they threw stones like
thunderbolts, and struck down the captain, hewed them in pieces,
smote off their heads and cast them to those that were without.

2 Mac 1:17
Blessed be our God in all things, who hath delivered up the
ungodly.

2 Mac 1:18
Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the
purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of
the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you
thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the
tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias
offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the
altar.

2 Mac 1:19
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that
were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it
in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it
sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

2 Mac 1:20
Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being
sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those
priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they
found no fire, but thick water;

2 Mac 1:21
Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and
when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests
to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the
water.

2 Mac 1:22
When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone,
which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire
kindled, so that every man marvelled.

2 Mac 1:23
And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was
consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan
beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemi