1 Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting, as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred would now show itself openly. (WEB) 2 The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow and wept much, while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them. (WEB) 3 What home, or city, or any inhabited place, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation? (WEB)
3 Maccabees 4:1–3
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1 Maccabees 1:24–26
24 When he had taken all of these, he went away into his own land. He made a great slaughter, and spoke very arrogantly. (WEB) 25 Great mourning came upon Israel, in every place where they were. (WEB) 26 The rulers and elders groaned. The virgins and young men were made feeble. The… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 6:16–18
16 Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome with the wild animals, and with his tumultuous power. (WEB) 17 When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven so that the adjacent valleys resounded and caused an irrep… (WEB)
Esther 4:2–4
2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate. 3 In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and…
Greek Esther 4:2–4
2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes. (WEB) 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They w… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 18:9–11
9 For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret, and with one consent they agreed to the covenant of the divine law, that they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils, the fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise. (WEB) 10 Bu… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 8:16–18
16 So Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them, but to fight nobly, (WEB) 17 setting before their eyes the outrage tha… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:11–13
11 Yes and whether they were far off or near, they were equally distressed; (WEB) 12 for a double grief seized them, and a groaning at the memory of things past. (WEB) 13 For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefited, they recognized the Lord. (WEB)
Greek Esther 11:8–10
8 And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth. (KJV) 9 And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish. (KJV) 10 Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were fr… (KJV)
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