The Second Book of Maccabees 📚 All chapters | The Bible 🕎

2. Maccabees. The First book of Maccabees. The Old Testament. English Bible (according to the Catholic and Orthodox canons). 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book which focuses on the Maccabean Revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes and concludes with the defeat of the Seleucid empire general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the hard work.