2 Maccabees
Deuterocanon · 8 sections · scripture: World English Bible
Not a sequel to 1 Maccabees, but a second telling of part of the same story, by a different kind of writer. Its author says plainly what he has done.
From the commentary's introduction to 2 Maccabees, written by an AI. All the scripture below is free to read; the commentary on each section is in the full edition.
- "May God Open Your Heart to His Law": Two Letters to Egypt, and the Abridger's Preface (1:1–2:32)
- Some Power of God in That Place": Heliodorus, and the High Priests Who Bought the Office 2 Maccabees 3–4
- Not for the Destruction, but for the Chastening": The Persecution, and Eleazar 2 Maccabees 5–6
- God Made Them Not of Things That Were": The Mother and Her Seven Sons 2 Maccabees 7
- The Help of God": Judas's Victories, and the Death of Antiochus 2 Maccabees 8–9
- That They Might Fall No More into Such Evils": The Temple Cleansed, and the Peace of Lysias 2 Maccabees 10–11
- He Took Thought for the Resurrection": The Wars of Judas, and the Prayer for the Dead 2 Maccabees 12–13
- Take This Holy Sword, a Gift from God": Nicanor, Razis, and the End of the Book 2 Maccabees 14–15