2 Maccabees 5:12
Good News Translation
giving his men orders to cut down without mercy everyone they met and to slaughter anyone they found hiding in the houses.

New Revised Standard Version
He commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly everyone they met and to kill those who went into their houses.

Contemporary English Version
Then he ordered his soldiers to kill everyone they found, even those hiding in their own homes.

New American Bible
He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.

2 Maccabees 5:10
But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.

2 Maccabees 5:11
Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

2 Maccabees 5:13
Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.

2 Maccabees 5:14
And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.

Context
2 Maccabees 5
11Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, 12And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay. 13Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 5:10
But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.

2 Maccabees 5:11
Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

2 Maccabees 5:13
Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.

2 Maccabees 5:14
And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.



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2 Maccabees 5:11
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