OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 8:3

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and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to listen to the blood that cried out to him,

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Verse 3. Blood of the Jews justly slain. Menochius.—The voice of Abel’s and of Christ’s blood is very different. Genesis 4:10. Hebrews 12:24.

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