2 Maccabees 1:15
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

New Revised Standard Version
When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it.

Contemporary English Version
They set out the treasures, and when Antiochus and a few of his friends entered the temple, the priests immediately locked the doors behind him.

New American Bible
When the priests of Nanea’s temple had displayed the treasures and Antiochus with a few attendants had come inside the wall of the temple precincts, the priests locked the temple as soon as he entered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

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 1:13
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.

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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2 Maccabees 1:14
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