4 Maccabees 15:12

¹² But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion. (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 16:12–14

¹² Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. (WEB) ¹³ But as one possessed with an adamant mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather urged them to death on behalf of religion. (WEB) ¹⁴ O woman, sol… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 12:13–15

¹³ Weren’t you ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them? (WEB) ¹⁴ But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God. (WEB) ¹⁵ But you will groan as you deserve for having sl… (WEB)

2 Maccabees 6:8–10

⁸ A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices, (WEB) ⁹ and that they should kill those who didn’t choose to go over to the Greek r… (WEB)

Matthew 22:26–28

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4 Maccabees 15:7–9

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Testament of Judah 2:20–22

²⁰ And when I knew what she had done, I cursed her in the anguish of my soul. (T12) ²¹ And she also died through her wickedness together with her sons. (T12) ²² And after these things, while Tamar was a widow, she heard after two years that I was going up, to shear my sheep, and ad… (T12)

4 Maccabees 16:1–2

¹ If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, it must be admitted that religious reasoning is master even of the emotions. (WEB) ² I have proved, then, that not only men have obtai… (WEB)

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⁴⁰ But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: these things do we testify. (KJV) ⁴¹ Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death. (KJV) ⁴² Then Susanna cried out wi… (KJV)

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