1 Maccabees 10:70
Good News Translation
"Because of you I am being ridiculed, but why do you, there in your mountains, continue this rebellion when no one supports you?

New Revised Standard Version
“You are the only one to rise up against us, and I have fallen into ridicule and disgrace because of you. Why do you assume authority against us in the hill country?

Contemporary English Version
Jonathan, you are the only one who is still fighting against us, and you are making others laugh and sneer at me. Why do you keep rebelling against us there in the hill country?

New American Bible
“You are the only one who resists us. I am laughed at and put to shame on your account. Why are you exercising authority against us in the mountains?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.

1 Maccabees 10:68
And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and returned to Antioch.

1 Maccabees 10:69
And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,

1 Maccabees 10:71
Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

1 Maccabees 10:72
Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:

Context
1 Maccabees 10
69And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest, 70Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains. 71Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 10:68
And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and returned to Antioch.

1 Maccabees 10:69
And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,

1 Maccabees 10:71
Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war.

1 Maccabees 10:72
Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land:



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1 Maccabees 10:69
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