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2,223 verses contain “before” (in the KJV: 1,966, in the BSB: 1,341) — showing 2,201–2,223

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But the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priests’ vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law concerning things given to he kept, that they should safely be preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.

2 Maccabees 3:26

Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side; and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.

2 Maccabees 4:28

For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.

2 Maccabees 4:44

Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

2 Maccabees 4:47

Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.

2 Maccabees 5:8

In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.

2 Maccabees 6:29

They that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.

2 Maccabees 7:7

So when the first was dead after this number, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?

2 Maccabees 8:14

Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord to deliver them, sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together:

2 Maccabees 8:17

And to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:

2 Maccabees 8:26

For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.

2 Maccabees 9:16

And the holy temple, which before he had spoiled, he would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices:

2 Maccabees 10:13

Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.

2 Maccabees 10:24

Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.

2 Maccabees 11:8

And as they were at Jerusalem, there appeared before them on horseback one in white clothing, shaking his armour of gold.

2 Maccabees 11:31

And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.

2 Maccabees 12:18

But as for Timotheus, they found him not in the places: for before he had dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.

2 Maccabees 12:42

Betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.

2 Maccabees 13:13

And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the king’s host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.

2 Maccabees 15:23

Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel before us for a fear and dread unto them;

2 Maccabees 15:31

So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,

2 Maccabees 15:33

And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

2 Maccabees 15:36

And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus’ day.