Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But wherever they went, they lifted their hands to God in prayer. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication. 2 Maccabees 3:18Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 2 Maccabees 3:19 And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. 2 Maccabees 3:21 For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity. 2 Maccabees 3:22 And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had committed them. Context 2 Maccabees 3…19And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. 20And all holding up their hands towards heaven made supplication. 21For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 3:18 Others also came flocking together out of their houses, praying and making public supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt. 2 Maccabees 3:19 And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. And the virgins also that were shut up, came forth, some to Onias, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows. 2 Maccabees 3:21 For the expectation of the mixed multitude, and of the high priest, who was in an agony, would have moved any one to pity. 2 Maccabees 3:22 And these indeed called upon almighty God, to preserve the things that had been committed to them safe and sure for those that had committed them. |
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