40 But under the garments of each one of the dead they found consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with. It became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 12:40
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1 Maccabees 1:62–64
62 Many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat unclean things. (WEB) 63 They chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the food, and that they might not profane the holy covenant; and they died. (WEB) 64 Exceedingly great wrath came upon Israel. (WEB)
Judith 8:18–20
18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days; (WEB) 19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a gr… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:38–40
38 So they attacked them on the Sabbath, and they died—they, their wives, their children, and their livestock—in number a thousand souls of men. (WEB) 39 When Mattathias and his friends found out about it, they mourned over them exceedingly. (WEB) 40 One said to another, “If we all… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:14–16
14 So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem according to the laws of the Gentiles. (WEB) 15 They made themselves uncircumcised, forsook the holy covenant, joined themselves to the Gentiles, and sold themselves to do evil. (WEB) 16 The kingdom was established in the sight of Antiochus… (WEB)
Numbers 33:3–5
3 On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians, 4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the L…
1 Maccabees 5:60–62
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2 Maccabees 6:4–6
4 For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate. (WEB) 5 The altar was filled with those abomi… (WEB)
2 Kings 17:11–13
11 They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. 12 They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.” 13 Yet through all His pro…
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