Bible Verses About The Maccabees And Martyrdom

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

General Hebrews suffering verse, not about Maccabees

There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

Weak lexical echo only; not about the Maccabees themselves.

Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

Generic seven-brother wording unrelated to Maccabees

Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

Generic seven-brothers wedding text

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

General martyrdom verse that only parallels the topic.

And all the men were about twelve.

Generic Acts number twelve, unrelated

Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

Generic 'seventh' wording

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

General persecution verse, not specific to Maccabees.

And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

Only a seven-name list; not relevant to the topic.

And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.

Generic sibling list from a parable, not Maccabees

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Completely different context of torment in Luke

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

General suffering exhortation

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

General atonement verse, not Maccabean martyr witness

And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

Acts 19 has seven sons of Sceva, unrelated

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

General faith-and-battle verse, not specifically about the Maccabees.

And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.

Stephen text, not Maccabees

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

General persecution verse

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

General Moses/faith verse

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

General endurance verse

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

General rejoicing in suffering for Jesus' name.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

Martyrs under the altar is related but indirect.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

General conquest by faith unto death.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Generic endurance verse, not specific to Maccabees

And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

General apostolic opposition verse

For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

Weakly related Esther verse used as misaligned filler.

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

Esther text unrelated to Maccabees martyrdom

And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

Acts persecution of Peter, not Maccabees

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

Moses defending an oppressed man, unrelated

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Esther administration note, irrelevant

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

General persecution of prophets

Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General missionary risk verse

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

Stephen burial, not Maccabees