2 Maccabees 12:1
Good News Translation
When the peace agreement between the Jews and the Syrians was completed, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went back to their farming.

New Revised Standard Version
When this agreement had been reached, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.

Contemporary English Version
After the agreement was signed, Lysias went back to King Antiochus, and our people started farming again.

New American Bible
After these agreements were made, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry.

2 Maccabees 11:37
And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what mind you are.

2 Maccabees 11:38
Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.

2 Maccabees 12:2
But they that were behind, viz. Timotheus, and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be quiet.

2 Maccabees 12:3
The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness: they desired the Jews, who dwelt among them, to go with their wives and children into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no enmity to them.

Context
2 Maccabees 12
1When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry. 2But they that were behind, viz. Timotheus, and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be quiet.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 11:37
And therefore make haste to write back, that we may know of what mind you are.

2 Maccabees 11:38
Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus.

2 Maccabees 12:2
But they that were behind, viz. Timotheus, and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to live in peace, and to be quiet.

2 Maccabees 12:3
The men of Joppe also were guilty of this kind of wickedness: they desired the Jews, who dwelt among them, to go with their wives and children into the boats, which they had prepared, as though they had no enmity to them.



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2 Maccabees 11:38
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