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Peace – Shalom

Search just this page Taken from the Encyclopedia Judaica Volume 13:195 – 196 Wholeness and Well-Being in the Bible the verb shalem, in both the perfect Gen. 15:16 and participle forms Gen. 33:18, represents a powerful concept of ‘wholeness, completeness and soundness’ in the qal. “PEACE.” This range of meanings is both profound and inspirational. […]

Daniel Chapter 6

Daniel is made ruler of the presidents
A conspiracy
Daniel thrown into the lions’ den
Daniel ‘s deliverance

Daniel Chapter 5

Impious feast of Belshazzar
Handwriting on the wall
Daniel’s interpretation
Belshazzar is killed and Medes

Daniel Chapter 4

Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges God’s dominion
Nebuchadnezzar relates a dream
Daniel’s tells the meaning of the dream
The dream fulfilled

The Harvest Festival – Sukkoth

“On the fifteenth day of this seventh month (five days after Yom Kippur) the festival of Sukkot {shall be celebrated) seven days unto the Lord. ”
(Leviticus 23:34-36)

2nd Maccabees Chapter 15

Nicanor’s blasphemies
Judas lectures his men. His dream
The disposition of the combatants
The defeat and death of Nicanor
Compiler’s epilogue

2nd Maccabees Chapter 14

VII: The Conflict with Nicanor, General of Demetrius I, The Day of Nicanor
Alcimus the high priest intervenes
Nicanor makes friends with Judas
Alcimus rekindles hostilities, and Nicanor threatens the temple
The Death of Razis

2nd Maccabees Chapter 13

The campaign of Antiochus V and Lysias, Horrible death of Menelaus
The prayers and success of the Jews Near Modein
Antiochus V negotiates with the Jews

2nd Maccabees Chapter 12

Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia
The Expedition in Gilead
The battle of Carnaim
The return by the way of Ephron and Scythopolis
The Campaign against Gorgias
The sacrifice for the fallen

2nd Maccabees Chapter 11

The first campaign of Lysias
Lysias makes peace with the Jews. Four letters concerning the treaty

2nd Maccabees Chapter 10

The Purification of the Temple
VI The Struggle of Judas against the Neighboring people and against Lysias, Minister of Antiochus V
Reign of Antiochus V: early years
Gorgias and the Idumaean fortress
Judas defeats Timotheus and captures Gezer

2nd Maccabees Chapter 8

V: The Victory of Judaism
The death of the persecutor and the purification of the Temple
Judas Maccabeus and the resistance
Campaign of Nicanor and Gorgias
The defeat of Timotheus and Bacchides
The flight and testimony of Nicanor

2nd Maccabees Chapter 5

Second Egyptian campaign
Jason’s insurrection; counteraction by Antiochus Epiphanes
Pillage of the Temple
Activities of Apollonius the Mysarch