mmandment: but I
will obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our
fathers by Moses.

2 Mac 7:31
And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against
the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.

2 Mac 7:32
For we suffer because of our sins.

2 Mac 7:33
And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while
for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again
with his servants.

2 Mac 7:34
But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not
lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes,
lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:

2 Mac 7:35
For thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God,
who seeth all things.

2 Mac 7:36
For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are
dead under God's covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through
the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy
pride.

2 Mac 7:37
But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws
of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be
merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues
mayest confess, that he alone is God;

2 Mac 7:38
And that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty,
which is justly brought upon our nation, may cease.

2 Mac 7:39
Than the king' being in a rage, handed him worse than all the
rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

2 Mac 7:40
So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the
Lord.

2 Mac 7:41
Last of all after the sons the mother died.

2 Mac 7:42
Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the
idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.

2 Mac 8:1
Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went
privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and
took unto them all such as continued in the Jews' religion, and
assembled about six thousand men.

2 Mac 8:2
And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the
people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple
profaned of ungodly men;

2 Mac 8:3
And that he would have compassion upon the city, sore
defaced, and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the
blood that cried unto him,

2 Mac 8:4
And remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and
the blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would
shew his hatred against the wicked.

2 Mac 8:5
Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be
withstood by the