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2 Maccabees 15:1–4

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aBut Nicanor, hearing that bJudas and his company were in the cstrong places about dSamaria, resolved ewithout any danger to set upon them on the sabbath day. 2Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above other days. 3Then fthe most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a gMighty One in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept. 4And when they said, There is in heaven ha living Lord, and gmighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:

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  1. aComp. 1 Macc. 7. 39.
  2. bSong 26.
  3. cSee ch. 10. 14.
  4. dSee 1 Macc. 3. 10.
  5. eComp. 1 Macc. 2. 41.
  6. fSee ch. 8. 34.
  7. gEcclus. 46. 6. ver. 29 (Gk.). See 1 Tim. 6. 15.
  8. hch. 7. 33. So Esther 16. 16.
  9. gEcclus. 46. 6. ver. 29 (Gk.). See 1 Tim. 6. 15.