- 1 2 Maccabees 1 Α′ Letters from Jerusalem urge the Jews in Egypt to keep the feast and remember God's preserving fire. PDF
- 2 2 Maccabees 2 Β′ Jeremiah's hidden holy things and the abridger's preface frame the book as remembered sacred history. PDF
- 3 2 Maccabees 3 Γ′ Heliodorus attacks the temple treasury, but God publicly vindicates the sanctuary and Onias. PDF
- 4 2 Maccabees 4 Δ′ Bought priesthood, Hellenizing ambition, and corruption drive Jerusalem into sacrilege and bloodguilt. PDF
- 5 2 Maccabees 5 Ε′ Portents, Jason's failed return, and Antiochus's sack of Jerusalem drive Judas into the wilderness resistance. PDF
- 6 2 Maccabees 6 Ϛ′ Persecution becomes policy as the temple is profaned and Eleazar dies as a public witness to covenant fidelity. PDF
- 7 2 Maccabees 7 Ζ′ A mother and her seven sons face torture and death rather than betray the law and the hope of resurrection. PDF
- 8 2 Maccabees 8 Η′ Judas gathers the faithful, defeats Nicanor's designs, and turns divine wrath into public deliverance. PDF
- 9 2 Maccabees 9 Θ′ Antiochus's arrogance against Jerusalem ends in disease, humiliation, and the miserable death of the persecutor. PDF
- 10 2 Maccabees 10 Ι′ The temple is purified and rededicated, and restored worship is immediately defended through renewed battle. PDF
- 11 2 Maccabees 11 ΙΑ′ Lysias learns that the Jews fight under divine aid, and war gives way to negotiated recognition in royal letters. PDF
- 12 2 Maccabees 12 ΙΒ′ Judas's campaigns join military zeal with covenant piety, culminating in atonement for the fallen. PDF
- 13 2 Maccabees 13 ΙΓ′ Antiochus Eupator's invasion is answered by prayer, bold resistance, and the fitting downfall of Menelaus. PDF
- 14 2 Maccabees 14 ΙΔ′ Demetrius and Alcimus turn on Judas through intrigue and sacrilege, while Razis dies as a witness to loyalty. PDF
- 15 2 Maccabees 15 ΙΕ′ Judas answers Nicanor with vision, courage, and victory, and Jerusalem memorializes God's deliverance. PDF