2 Maccabees 8:21
Good News Translation
Judas' words encouraged his men and made them willing to die for their religion and their country. He then divided his army into four divisions

New Revised Standard Version
With these words he filled them with courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country; then he divided his army into four parts.

Contemporary English Version
These stories encouraged the troops and made them willing to die for their faith and their nation. Judas now divided his army into four groups

New American Bible
With these words he encouraged them and made them ready to die for their laws and their country. Then Judas divided his army into four,

Douay-Rheims Bible
With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even to die for the laws and their country.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even to die for the laws and their country.

2 Maccabees 8:19
Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had received from God: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-five thousand had been destroyed.

2 Maccabees 8:20
And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours.

2 Maccabees 8:22
So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his army; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen hundred men.

2 Maccabees 8:23
And after the holy book had been read to them by Esdras, and he had given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor:

Context
2 Maccabees 8
20And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours. 21With these words they were greatly encouraged and disposed even to die for the laws and their country. 22So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his army; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen hundred men.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 8:19
Moreover, he put them in mind also of the helps their fathers had received from God: and how, under Sennacherib, a hundred and eighty-five thousand had been destroyed.

2 Maccabees 8:20
And of the battle that they had fought against the Galatians, in Babylonia; how they, being in all but six thousand, when it came to the point, and the Macedonians, their companions, were at a stand, slew a hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help they had from heaven, and for this they received many favours.

2 Maccabees 8:22
So he appointed his brethren captains over each division of his army; Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each one fifteen hundred men.

2 Maccabees 8:23
And after the holy book had been read to them by Esdras, and he had given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor:



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