2 Maccabees 14:9
Good News Translation
When Your Majesty has examined all the details of these matters, please act in your usual kind and generous manner to relieve the oppression of our nation and its people.

New Revised Standard Version
Since you are acquainted, O king, with the details of this matter, may it please you to take thought for our country and our hard-pressed nation with the gracious kindness that you show to all.

Contemporary English Version
Now you know the truth, so please be kind and generous, just as you always are, and help our oppressed people.

New American Bible
When you have informed yourself in detail on these matters, O king, provide for our country and its hard-pressed people with the same gracious consideration that you show toward all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men.

2 Maccabees 14:7
For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

2 Maccabees 14:8
Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men.

2 Maccabees 14:10
For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet.

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.

Context
2 Maccabees 14
8Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men. 9Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men. 10For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 14:7
For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

2 Maccabees 14:8
Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men.

2 Maccabees 14:10
For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet.

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.



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2 Maccabees 14:8
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