Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation They were also successful in hunting down the arrogant Gentile officials. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands: 1 Maccabees 2:45And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars: 1 Maccabees 2:46 And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly. 1 Maccabees 2:48 And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner. 1 Maccabees 2:49 Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: Context 1 Maccabees 2…46And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly. 47And they pursued after the children of pride, and the work prospered in their hands: 48And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 2:45 And Mathathias and his friends went round about, and they threw down the altars: 1 Maccabees 2:46 And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly. 1 Maccabees 2:48 And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner. 1 Maccabees 2:49 Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: |