2 Maccabees 9:11
Good News Translation
Antiochus was deeply depressed and suffered constant pain because of the punishment that God had brought on him, so he finally came to his senses and gave up his arrogant pride.

New Revised Standard Version
Then it was that, broken in spirit, he began to lose much of his arrogance and to come to his senses under the scourge of God, for he was tortured with pain every moment.

Contemporary English Version
God punished King Antiochus with unending pain and depression, until the king began to lose his pride and started thinking clearly.

New American Bible
At last, broken in spirit, he began to give up his excessive arrogance, and to gain some understanding, under the scourge of God, for he was racked with pain unceasingly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.

2 Maccabees 9:9
So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army.

2 Maccabees 9:10
And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench.

2 Maccabees 9:12
And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

2 Maccabees 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

Context
2 Maccabees 9
10And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench. 11And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. 12And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 9:9
So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army.

2 Maccabees 9:10
And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench.

2 Maccabees 9:12
And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.

2 Maccabees 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.



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