Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation After the priests had laid out the treasure, he and a few of his men went into the temple to collect it. But the priests closed the doors behind him Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, 2 Maccabees 1:13For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea. 2 Maccabees 1:14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. 2 Maccabees 1:16 When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth. 2 Maccabees 1:17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. Context 2 Maccabees 1…14For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. 15And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, 16When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 1:13 For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea. 2 Maccabees 1:14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. 2 Maccabees 1:16 When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth. 2 Maccabees 1:17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. |
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