Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But some of the local governors, Timothy and Apollonius son of Gennaeus, as well as Hieronymus and Demophon, would not let them live in peace; and neither would Nicanor, the commander of the mercenaries from Cyprus. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 11:38Fare ye well. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day of the month of Xanthicus. 2 Maccabees 12:1 When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry. 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. 2 Maccabees 12:4 Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of 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. 3The 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.… Cross References 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 12:1 When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry. 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. 2 Maccabees 12:4 Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them. |
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