Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Then he executed the traitors and immediately captured the two forts. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers. 2 Maccabees 10:20Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape. 2 Maccabees 10:21 But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape. 2 Maccabees 10:23 And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds. 2 Maccabees 10:24 But Timotheus, who before had been overcome by the Jews, having called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms. Context 2 Maccabees 10…21But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape. 22So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers. 23And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 10:20 Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for the sake of money by some that were in the towers: and taking seventy thousand didrachmas, let some of them escape. 2 Maccabees 10:21 But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape. 2 Maccabees 10:23 And having good success in arms, and all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds. 2 Maccabees 10:24 But Timotheus, who before had been overcome by the Jews, having called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms. |