OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 1:23

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The priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was being consumed—both the priests and all the others. Jonathan led and the rest responded, as Nehemiah did.

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Verse 23. Jonathan, one of the chief priests; perhaps Joiada, Eliasib’s son. Calmet.

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