righteous Judge, who
had opened the things that were hid,

2 Mac 12:42
Betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin
committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that
noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin,
forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to
pass for the sins of those that were slain.

2 Mac 12:43
And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to
the sum of two thousand drachms of silver, he sent it to
Jerusalem to offer a sin offering, doing therein very well and
honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection:

2 Mac 12:44
For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have
risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the
dead.

2 Mac 12:45
And also in that he perceived that there was great favour
laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good
thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that
they might be delivered from sin.

2 Mac 13:1
In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that
Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea,

2 Mac 13:2
And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs,
having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and
ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and
elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with
hooks.

2 Mac 13:3
Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great
dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the
country, but because he thought to have been made governor.

2 Mac 13:4
But the King of kings moved Antiochus' mind against this
wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was
the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring
him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in
that place.

2 Mac 13:5
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high,
full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side
hanged down into the ashes.

2 Mac 13:6
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed
any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto
death.

2 Mac 13:7
Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having
so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:

2 Mac 13:8
For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar,
whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.

2 Mac 13:9
Now the ki