Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Not long after that, the king sent an elderly Athenian to force the Jews to abandon their religion and the customs of their ancestors. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: 2 Maccabees 5:26And he slew all that were come forth to flee: and running through the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude. 2 Maccabees 5:27 But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution. 2 Maccabees 6:2 And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place. 2 Maccabees 6:3 And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all. Context 2 Maccabees 6… 1But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: 2And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 5:26 And he slew all that were come forth to flee: and running through the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude. 2 Maccabees 5:27 But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution. 2 Maccabees 6:2 And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place. 2 Maccabees 6:3 And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all. |
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