2 Maccabees 9:20
Good News Translation
"I hope that you and your families are in good health and that all goes well with you. My hope is in God,

New Revised Standard Version
If you and your children are well and your affairs are as you wish, I am glad. As my hope is in heaven,

Contemporary English Version
I pray that you and your families are healthy and that all is going well for you. I have now placed my hope in God,

New American Bible
If you and your children are well and your affairs are going as you wish, I thank God very much, for my hopes are in heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks.

2 Maccabees 9:18
But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words:

2 Maccabees 9:19
To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness.

2 Maccabees 9:21
As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:

2 Maccabees 9:22
Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness.

Context
2 Maccabees 9
19To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness. 20If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. 21As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 9:18
But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words:

2 Maccabees 9:19
To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness.

2 Maccabees 9:21
As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:

2 Maccabees 9:22
Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness.



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