# 2 Maccabees 1:20

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
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Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;