2 Maccabees 14:13
Good News Translation
with orders to kill Judas, scatter his followers, and make Alcimus High Priest of the greatest Temple in all the world.

New Revised Standard Version
with orders to kill Judas and scatter his troops, and to install Alcimus as high priest of the great temple.

Contemporary English Version
with orders to kill Judas and scatter his army and afterwards to make Alcimus high priest of the glorious temple.

New American Bible
with orders to put Judas to death, to disperse his followers, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the great temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great temple.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great temple.

2 Maccabees 14:11
Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him.

2 Maccabees 14:12
And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea:

2 Maccabees 14:14
Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to be the welfare of their affairs.

2 Maccabees 14:15
Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the nations were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him who chose his people to keep them for ever, and who protected his portion by evident signs.

Context
2 Maccabees 14
12And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea: 13Giving him in charge, to take Judas himself: and disperse all them that were with him, and to make Alcimus the high priest of the great temple. 14Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to be the welfare of their affairs.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 14:11
Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him.

2 Maccabees 14:12
And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea:

2 Maccabees 14:14
Then the Gentiles who had fled out of Judea, from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the miseries and calamities of the Jews to be the welfare of their affairs.

2 Maccabees 14:15
Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the nations were assembled against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him who chose his people to keep them for ever, and who protected his portion by evident signs.



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2 Maccabees 14:12
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