Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation I have not given up hopes of getting well; in fact I am fully confident that I will recover. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness. 2 Maccabees 9:20If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. 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 9:23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him: 2 Maccabees 9:24 To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall out, or any bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the countries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be troubled. Context 2 Maccabees 9…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: 22Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness. 23But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him:… Cross References 2 Maccabees 9:20 If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. 2 Maccabees 9:21 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 9:23 But considering that my father also, at what time he led an army into the higher countries, appointed who should reign after him: 2 Maccabees 9:24 To the end that if any thing contrary to expectation should fall out, or any bad tidings should be brought, they that were in the countries, knowing to whom the whole government was left, might not be troubled. |
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