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• 71 · Old Testament
• 71Z · (books of the) Maccabees

71Z3 · second book of the Maccabees (part I)

• 71Z31 · Heliodorus in the temple, attacked by a man (or angel) on horseback and two other men (or angels) (2 Maccabees 3:7-35)
• 71Z32 · Onias, the high priest, is slandered (2 Maccabees 4:1-4, 4:34-38)
• 71Z33 · after their charge against Menelaus, the ambassadors of the High Court are sentenced to death by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Maccabees 4:43-50)
• 71Z34 · riders are seen in the sky above the city of Jerusalem (2 Maccabees 5:2)
• 71Z35 · martyrdom of Eleazar: the old man is forced to eat pork and voluntarily submits to the flogging (2 Maccabees 6:18-31)
• 71Z36 · the martyrdom of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Maccabees 7)
• 71Z37 · sickness and death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Maccabees 9)
• 71Z38 · second purification of the temple (2 Maccabees 10:1-8)
• 71Z39 · a heavenly rider, in white garment and with weapons of gold, helps the Maccabees in their battle against Lysias (2 Maccabees 11:6-12)