Feast Of Dedication Flashcards
FOD is in the winter
John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
Antiochus a Greek defile the temple
1 Maccabees 1:45 And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days:
1 Maccabees 1:46 And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:
1 Maccabees 1:47 Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine’s flesh, and unclean beasts:
Shed innocent blood and defile the temple
1 Maccabees 1:37 Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:
2300 days 171b.c to 165 b.c sanctuary be clean.
Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Judas and brethren kept the dedication 8 days !
1 Maccabees 4:56 And so they kept the dedication of the altar eight days and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed the sacrifice of deliverance and praise.
9th month is called?
1 Maccabees 4:52 Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,
Judas and his army put them to flight
1 Maccabees 4:35 Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
Solomon kept the Feast of Dedication
2 Chronicles 7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
