2 Maccabees

Contents

2 Maccabees 1

• A Letter to the Jews in Egypt
• A Second Letter: The Death of Antiochus
• The Fire Hidden in the Well

2 Maccabees 2

• What the Records Tell of Jeremiah
• The Abridger’s Preface

2 Maccabees 3

• Heliodorus Comes for the Treasury
• The Rider in Gold and the Two Young Men

2 Maccabees 4

• Onias Goes to the King
• Jason and the Greek Way of Life
• Menelaus and the Murder of Onias
• Lysimachus Killed, Menelaus Acquitted

2 Maccabees 5

• Horsemen in the Sky and the End of Jason
• Antiochus Plunders the Temple

2 Maccabees 6

• The Temple Profaned and the Law Forbidden
• Why the Lord Disciplines His People
• The Martyrdom of Eleazar

2 Maccabees 7

• The Seven Brothers
• The Mother and Her Youngest Son

2 Maccabees 8

• Judas Gathers His Forces
• Nicanor Plans to Sell the Jews
• The Rout of Nicanor

2 Maccabees 9

• The Death of Antiochus Epiphanes
• The Letter of Antiochus to the Jews

2 Maccabees 10

• The Purification of the Temple
• Eupator, Lysias, and the Idumean War
• The Defeat of Timothy

2 Maccabees 11

• Lysias Routed at Beth-zur
• The Letters That Sealed the Peace

2 Maccabees 12

• Treachery at Joppa and Jabneh
• The Campaign Against Timothy
• Gorgias Routed, and an Offering for the Dead

2 Maccabees 13

• Eupator Invades, and the End of Menelaus
• A Night Attack, and Peace with the King

2 Maccabees 14

• Alcimus Accuses Judas
• Nicanor Befriends Judas
• Nicanor Threatens the Temple
• The Death of Razis

2 Maccabees 15

• Nicanor’s Boast and Judas’s Dream
• The Defeat of Nicanor
• The Author’s Closing Words