1 It came to pass that seven brothers and their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh. (WEB) 2 One of them made himself the spokesman and said, “What would you ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.” (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:1–2
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4 Maccabees 9:1–2
1 “Why do you delay, O tyrant? For we are more ready to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers. (WEB) 2 We would be disgracing our fathers if we didn’t obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:14–16
14 O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and even though weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words. (WEB) 15 For when you were seized along with your children, you stood looking at Eleaza… (WEB)
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)
4 Maccabees 9:15–17
15 “O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you torture, but a defender of the Divine law.” (WEB) 16 And when the spearmen said, “Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,” (WEB) 17 he… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:7–9
7 And when the first had died like this, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, “Will you eat, before your body is punished in every limb?” (WEB) 8 But he answered in the language of his ancestors an… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:17–19
17 However let this that we have spoken suffice to remind you; but after a few words, we must come to the narrative. (WEB) 18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well advanced in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat sw… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:17–19
17 If we suffer like this, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us. (WEB) 18 As each one of the kindred was hauled away, the rest exclaimed, “Don’t disgrace us, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you!” (WEB) 19 Now you are not ignora… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:8–10
8 For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, (WEB) 9 “Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. (WEB) 10 Let’s not be cowards in the manifestation of… (WEB)
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