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99161 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.85
… Maccabees 12:21 the Spartans and Jews are said to be kinsmen (literally, brothers), both alike being descendants of Abraham; so also 14:20. This is admittedly …
99162 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.87
… :10,55; 12:15, etc.), a designation common in rabbinical Hebrew (Talmud, etc.). As early as 300 BC the sacred name "Yahweh" was discarded in favor of "Adonai" (Lord) for superstitious …
99163 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.90
(4) The book teaches that the age of inspiration is past, and that the sacred books already written are the only source of comfort in sorrow and of encouragement under difficulties ( 1 Maccabees 12:9 ).
99164 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.93
… Daniel 12:3; Enoch 19; 22:11-14; 9:1,5 ff; 2 Maccabees 7:9, 11, 14, 29 ). We know that the Pharisee party believed in a resurrection (see Acts 23:6 ). The Maccabean heroes fought …
99165 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.95
… :1,12; 12:1; 14:40); i.e. the composition of the book must have been completed (unless we except chapters 14-16; see below) before 63BC, when Pompey conquered Jerusalem …
99166 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.113
… Maccabees 12:2 - 45, to separate dates and different sets of circumstances. The statements in 2 Maccabees are obscure and confused, those in 1 Maccabees 5 clear …
99167 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.115
… Maccabees 12:7 - 9 (compare 1 Maccabees 5:1 - 5; 1 Maccabees 12:17 - 25 ); 2 Maccabees 10:24 - 38 (compare 1 Maccabees 5:29 - 44 ); 2 Maccabees 12:32 - 45 (compare 1 Maccabees 5:65, 68, 63 …
99168 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.117
… f; 12:38); compare the words of the Pharisees to Petronius when the latter proposed to have a statue of the emperor Caius erected in the temple: "We will die rather …
99169 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.122
… Maccabees 12:44 ); (b) the power exercised by the intercession of saints ( 2 Maccabees 15:12 - 14 ); Philo (De execrat., 9) and Josephus (Ant., I, xi, 3) held the same doctrine; (c) the …
99170 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 1-2.126
… Deuteronomy 12:2 - 18 and Leviticus 17:1 - 9; 19:30 ), and it was perhaps the growing influence of this temple that prompted the author to compose this book which sets …
99171 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.32
(1) 4 Maccabees 1:1 - 12 : First of all, the writer states his theme and the method in which he intends to treat it.
99172 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.37
… :11,15; 12:12; 13:14). Nothing, however, is said of the Pharisees' doctrine of a bodily resurrection which 2 Maccabees, a Pharisaic document (see II, 6, (6) above), clearly …
99173 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.49
… Maccabees 12, which is the only original part, and this teems with errors of various kinds); a note at the end of 5 Maccabees 16 says 1:1 through 16:26 is called The …
99174 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macedonia.26
… liii.12) and were governed separately by ex-praetors sent out annually with the title of proconsul. In 15 AD, however, senatorial mismanagement had brought …
99175 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macedonia.29
… 16:12 ). Thence Paul and his two companions (for Luke appears to have remained in Philippi for the next 5 years) traveled along the Ignatian road, passing through …
99176 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macedonia.33
… 17:12 ).
99177 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Machbannai.2
Machbannai - mak'-ba-ni, -ba-na'-i (makhbannay; the King James Version Machbanai): A Gadite who attached himself to David in Ziklag ( 1 Chronicles 12:13 ).
99178 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Machi.2
Machi - ma'-ki (makhi; Peshitta and some manuscripts of Septuagint read "Machir"): A Gadite, father of Geuel, one of the 12 spies ( Numbers 13:15 ).
99179 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Machpelah.9
… some 12 ft. square; it had plastered walls, and in the wall toward the Southeast there was a door which appeared like the entrance to a rock-cut tomb. On the outside …
99180 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macron.2
… 10:12 ff). Under Antiochus he was governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia ( 2 Maccabees 8:8 ). In 1 Maccabees 3:38 and 2 Maccabees 4:45 he is called "Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes …