Graphic Bible · Scene 44 of 70
Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 2
The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.
Source and translation notes
Anonymous. Artwork does not authenticate historical portraits or authorship.
· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 2:44
Support and Resistance
A Covenant in the Wilderness · 1 Maccabees 2
Story guide: The joining hands show support; abandoned weapons acknowledge the killings, and departing figures portray flight. These restrained images keep the complete campaign clause in the quoted text.
Open this scene in the reader →44They joined them and became a support for them. They also formed a force and struck down sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath; and the rest fled to the nations to save themselves.
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