Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation So the wedding was turned into a time of mourning and their joyful music into funeral songs. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their musical instruments into lamentation. 1 Maccabees 9:39And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons. 1 Maccabees 9:40 And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils: 1 Maccabees 9:42 And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they returned to the bank of the Jordan. 1 Maccabees 9:43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan, with a great power. Context 1 Maccabees 9…40And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils: 41And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their musical instruments into lamentation. 42And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they returned to the bank of the Jordan.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 9:39 And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons. 1 Maccabees 9:40 And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils: 1 Maccabees 9:42 And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they returned to the bank of the Jordan. 1 Maccabees 9:43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan, with a great power. |
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