Treasury of Scripture Knowledge In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea, 2 Maccabees 12:45And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. 2 Maccabees 12:46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. 2 Maccabees 13:2 And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots. 2 Maccabees 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. Context 2 Maccabees 13… 1In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea, 2And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 12:45 And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. 2 Maccabees 12:46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. 2 Maccabees 13:2 And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots. 2 Maccabees 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. |