Hebrews 11:35

Women received their dead The woman of Sarepta (1 Kings 17:22), the Shunamite (2 Kings 4:32-36).

raised to life again Lit., "by resurrection."

were tortured The word means, technically, "were broken on the wheel," and the special reference may be to 2Ma 6:18-30; 2Ma 6:7. (the tortures of Eleazer the Scribe, and of the Seven Brothers).

deliverance "Thedeliverance offered them" (2Ma 6:20-21; 2Ma 7:24).

a better resurrection Not a mere resurrection to earthly life, like the children of the women just mentioned, but "an everlasting reawakening of life" (2Ma 7:9 and passim).