2 Maccabees 10:2
Good News Translation
They tore down the altars which foreigners had set up in the marketplace and destroyed the other places of worship that had been built.

New Revised Standard Version
they tore down the altars that had been built in the public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts.

Contemporary English Version
Then they destroyed the places where the foreigners had worshiped, including the altars they had built in the public market.

New American Bible
they destroyed the altars erected by the foreigners in the marketplace and the sacred shrines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols.

2 Maccabees 9:29
But Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body: and out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee Philometor.

2 Maccabees 10:1
But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again.

2 Maccabees 10:3
And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.

2 Maccabees 10:4
And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.

Context
2 Maccabees 10
1But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. 2But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. 3And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 9:29
But Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body: and out of fear of the son of Antiochus, went into Egypt to Ptolemee Philometor.

2 Maccabees 10:1
But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again.

2 Maccabees 10:3
And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.

2 Maccabees 10:4
And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.



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2 Maccabees 10:1
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