2 Maccabees 1:10 (WEB)
The people of Jerusalem and those who are in Judea, with the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews who are in Egypt, we send greetings and health.
Fathers and councils · 1
“But the fire was seen, as Aristobulus says, while the whole multitude, amounting to not less than a million, besides those under age, were congregated around the mountain, the circuit of the mount not being less than five days’ journey.” — editor's note: [Of this Aristobulus, see 2 Maccab. i. 10, and Euseb., Hist., book vii. cap. 32. Elucidation II.]
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Cross-references · 11
Parallel passages
2 Maccabees 1:10 and Ezekiel 33:27 share the same wording (9 words).
Joshua 17:16 and 2 Maccabees 1:10 share the same wording (9 words).
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Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.3.
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Luke 21:21 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 1:10 (13 words in common).
Hebrews 13:3 takes up the words of 2 Maccabees 1:10 (8 words in common).