Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Nicanor urged him to marry and start a family. So Judas did this and settled down to a peaceful life. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common. 2 Maccabees 14:23And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no wrong, but sent away the flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together. 2 Maccabees 14:24 And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man. 2 Maccabees 14:26 But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor. 2 Maccabees 14:27 Then the king, being in a rage, and provoked with this man's wicked accusation, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch. Context 2 Maccabees 14…24And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man. 25And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common. 26But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 14:23 And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no wrong, but sent away the flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together. 2 Maccabees 14:24 And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man. 2 Maccabees 14:26 But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor had assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor. 2 Maccabees 14:27 Then the king, being in a rage, and provoked with this man's wicked accusation, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch. |
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