Deuterocanon & Apocrypha · 15 chapters
2 Maccabees
A second account of the period of the Maccabean struggles, with particular attention to the temple, martyrdom, prayer and resurrection. It overlaps events in 1 Maccabees rather than continuing its story.
Place in the traditions
Part of the Catholic and many Orthodox Old Testaments. Usually placed in the Apocrypha or omitted in Protestant editions.
Catholic canon · WEB collection and contentsThe edition you are reading
World English Bible (WEB), Deuterocanon/Apocrypha. Public-domain text from eBible.org. This collection brings together works received differently by different churches; inclusion here does not assign them all the same canonical status. Source verse numbering is retained, including gaps where the source has no text. This is 2 Maccabees, not the distinct Ethiopian work 2 Meqabyan.
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