What wickedness was being perpetrated at Jerusalem?
31. How had this sacrilege been foretold?--verses 30, 31.--viii. 11, 12.
32. How had the martyrdoms been foretold?--viii. 10.
33. What Psalms are applicable to this persecution?--
lxxiv.--lxxix.--lxxx.
34. What were the most remarkable martyrdoms?
35. In what apocryphal book are they recorded?
36. What was the remarkable difference between these and Christian
martyrs?
LESSON XVIII.
1. What deliverers were raised up for the Jews?
2. Why was the family of Mattathias called Asmonean?
3. How was Mattathias first roused to resistance?
4. What purification did Mattathias make?
5. What were the predictions of him and his sons?--Dan. xi. 32, 33.
6. Who succeeded Mattathias?
7. How arose the name of Maccabees?
8. What was the great work of Judaa Maccabaeus?
9. What was the end of Antiochus Epiphanes?
10. How had it been predicted?--Dan. xi. 44, 45.
11. What was the death of Eleazar?
12. How was the varying success of the Maccabees foretold?--Dan. xi.
13. What was the death of the apostate Menelam?
14. How had Zechariah spoken of him?--Zech, xi.
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