2 Maccabees 12:31
Good News Translation
So Judas and his men thanked the people and urged them to show the same good will toward the Jews in the future. Then they left for Jerusalem, where they arrived shortly before the Harvest Festival.

New Revised Standard Version
they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the festival of weeks was close at hand.

Contemporary English Version
So our soldiers thanked those people and urged them to always stay on good terms with the Jews. Then Judas and our troops returned to Jerusalem, just before the Harvest Festival, which is also known as Pentecost.

New American Bible
Judas and his men thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their nation in the future also. Finally they arrived in Jerusalem, shortly before the feast of Weeks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to their nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being at hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to their nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being at hand.

2 Maccabees 12:29
From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 12:30
But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity:

2 Maccabees 12:32
And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.

2 Maccabees 12:33
And he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.

Context
2 Maccabees 12
30But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity: 31They gave them thanks, exhorting them to be still friendly to their nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being at hand. 32And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 12:29
From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem.

2 Maccabees 12:30
But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity:

2 Maccabees 12:32
And after Pentecost they marched against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.

2 Maccabees 12:33
And he came out with three thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.



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