Lacedaemonians
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... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia LACEDAEMONIANS. las-e-de-mo'-ni-anz
(Spartidtai; once only Lakedaimonioi, 2 Maccabees 5:9): The ...
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Spartans
... spar'-ta, spar'-tanz (Sparte (1 Maccabees 14:16), Spartiatai; Lacedaemonians (the
King James Version 1 Maccabees 12:2, 5, 6, 10, 21; 14:20-23; 15:23; in 2 ...
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Sparta
... spar'-ta, spar'-tanz (Sparte (1 Maccabees 14:16), Spartiatai; Lacedaemonians (the
King James Version 1 Maccabees 12:2, 5, 6, 10, 21; 14:20-23; 15:23; in 2 ...
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Jason (5 Occurrences)
... ultimately failed (2 Maccabees 5:5). He took refuge with the Ammonites again, and
then with Aretas, the Arabian, and finally with the Lacedaemonians, where he ...
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Laced (3 Occurrences)

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Pharisees (86 Occurrences)
... Immediately after the account of the embassy to the Lacedaemonians, there is subjoined
(Josephus, Ant, XIII, v, 9) an account of the Pharisees, Sadducees and ...
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Lachish (22 Occurrences)

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Maccabaeus
... Greek, being held by a Syrian garrison. See further under ASMONEANS;
LACEDAEMONIANS; TRYPHON. 4. Simon: Simon, surnamed Thassi ("the ...
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Maccabees
... Greek, being held by a Syrian garrison. See further under ASMONEANS;
LACEDAEMONIANS; TRYPHON. 4. Simon: Simon, surnamed Thassi ("the ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Lacedaemonians

in Greece the inhabitants of Sparta or Lacedaemon, with whom the Jews claimed kindred. 1 Macc. 12:2,5,6,20,21; 14:20,23; 15:23; 2 Macc. 5:9.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
LACEDAEMONIANS

las-e-de-mo'-ni-anz (Spartidtai; once only Lakedaimonioi, 2 Maccabees 5:9): The inhabitants of Sparta or Lacedaemon with whom the Jews claimed some kinship and formed alliances (1 Maccabees 12:2, 5, 6, 20, 21; 14:20, 23; 15:23; 2 Maccabees 5:9). The alliance mentioned in 1 Maccabees 12:5-23 is based, among other grounds, on that of a common descent of Jews and Lacedaemonians from Abraham, for which the only probable presumption-suggested by Ewald-is the similarity of names, "Pelasgi" and Peleg son of Eber (Genesis 10:25; Genesis 11:16). This has been reasonably objected to, and perhaps the most that can be said on this point is that the belief in some relationship between the Jews and the Lacedaemonians seems to have prevailed when 1 Maccabees was written. The alliance itself is said to have been formed (1 Maccabees 12:20) between Areus, king of the Lacedaemonians and Onias the high priest; but it is not easy to make out a consistent chronology for the transaction. For the renewal of the alliance (circa 144 B.C.) by Jonathan (1 Maccabees 12:5-18) and again by Simon (1 Maccabees 14:16-23), something can be said, as the Greeks had finally been deprived of independence in 146 B.C., and Sparta was only obliged to lend assistance to Rome and may be supposed to have been doing so in helping the Jews against Syria. It is possible, too, that as against Syrian Hellenism the Jews were anxious to show that they had the assistance of distinguished Greeks, though the actual power of Sparta was much reduced from that of former times. The facts, at least of the alliance and the correspondence, seem to be sufficiently attested, though it is not easy to reconcile all the particulars. Josephus (Ant., XII, iv, 10; XIII, v, 8; XIV, xii, 2, 3) gives the correspondence at greater length than the writer of the Maccabees.

J. Hutchison

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