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Background and recordsEsther (Greek) 10:14
This note is not part of Esther’s story events. It is a brief editorial colophon attached to the Greek form of Esther, recording who brought a letter of Purim and who was said to have interpreted it.
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Teaching1 Maccabees 2:49–68
As Mattathias nears death, he gives his sons a final charge. He names the crisis, calls for zeal for the law, recalls earlier generations, and ends with clear instructions about courage, leadership and obedience.
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Teaching1 Maccabees 8:22–32
This treaty text shows a formal agreement between Rome and the Jewish people. It is not a battle story, but a diplomatic document that records peace, alliance, shared obligations, and later support against King Demetrius.
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Letters1 Maccabees 11:29–37
This royal letter records what King Demetrius says he is granting to Jonathan and the Jewish nation.
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Letters1 Maccabees 12:5–23
This passage gives copies of diplomatic letters between Jonathan and the Spartans, and then an earlier letter to Onias.
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Wisdom1 Maccabees 14:4–49
This passage praises Simon’s leadership, reports contact with Sparta and Rome, and records a public decree.
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Letters1 Maccabees 15:1–9; 1 Maccabees 15:15–24
This passage preserves two official letters as source texts. One comes from Antiochus to Simon and the Jewish nation.
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Background and records1 Maccabees 16:23–24
These closing verses end 1 Maccabees by pointing readers to a written record about John. They name several parts of his public life and say where fuller information was written.
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Letters2 Maccabees 1:1–2:18
These opening festival letters in the Catholic additional book of 2 Maccabees speak from Judea to Jews in Egypt.
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Background and records2 Maccabees 2:19–32
This preface explains both the subject of 2 Maccabees and the way the book has been made. It tells readers they are about to read a shorter version of a larger history.
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Teaching2 Maccabees 6:12–17
In this short aside from the Catholic additional book of 2 Maccabees, the writer pauses the story to explain how readers should think about suffering and punishment.
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Letters2 Maccabees 9:18–27
This passage from the Catholic additional book of 2 Maccabees records a royal letter from Antiochus while he is suffering.
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Letters2 Maccabees 11:16–12:1
This passage gathers four official letters and a short coda about an agreement between ruling authorities and the Jews.
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Background and records2 Maccabees 15:37–39
These final verses close 2 Maccabees by stepping out of the story and speaking about the writing itself.
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WisdomJob 3:1–26
Job 3 records Job’s answer as a lament about his birth and his present trouble. In dark, forceful poetry, he curses the day he was born, wishes he had died, and asks why life continues in misery.
WisdomJob 4:1–21
In Job 4:1-21, Eliphaz answers Job with a firm view about suffering, innocence and God. His speech moves from Job’s past help, to a general claim about the innocent, to a fearful night message about human weakness.
WisdomJob 5:1–27
In Job 5, Eliphaz continues speaking to Job. He contrasts the fate of the foolish with his own advice to seek God, then describes God’s power, justice and correction, ending with a strong claim that his words should be accepted.
WisdomJob 6:1–30
Job answers by measuring the weight of his suffering, explaining his desperate speech, and asking his friends for kindness and honest correction rather than empty reproof.
WisdomJob 7:1–21
In Job 7:1–21, Job speaks plainly about exhausting suffering. He compares life to hard labour, describes sleepless pain, and then turns his complaint towards God with urgent questions about being watched, tested, and not pardoned.
WisdomJob 8:1–22
In Job 8:1–22, Bildad answers Job with sharp questions and firm conclusions. This is wisdom and dialogue, so the passage gives Bildad’s argument in order rather than asking us to treat his speech as a separate story.
WisdomJob 9:1–35
In Job 9, Job answers with a hard question: how can a person contend with God? This wisdom dialogue follows Job’s thoughts step by step as he speaks of God’s greatness, his own weakness, and his longing to speak without fear.
WisdomJob 10:1–22
In Job 10:1–22, Job speaks directly to God from deep weariness. He asks why God is against him, remembers that God made and preserved him, and pleads for a little relief before the darkness he expects.
WisdomJob 11:1–20
In Job 11:1–20, Zophar answers Job with a severe rebuke. He attacks Job’s words, speaks about God’s unsearchable wisdom, urges Job to remove iniquity, and ends by contrasting hoped-for safety with the end of the wicked.
WisdomJob 12:1–25
Job answers people who speak as if they have settled everything. He says their claims are not special, then points to suffering, creation and rulers to show that God’s wisdom and power reach beyond human certainty.
