Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The happy celebration lasted eight days, like the Festival of Shelters, and the people remembered how only a short time before, they had spent the Festival of Shelters wandering like wild animals in the mountains and living in caves. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens like wild beasts. 2 Maccabees 10:4And 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. 2 Maccabees 10:5 Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. 2 Maccabees 10:7 Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place. 2 Maccabees 10:8 And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year. Context 2 Maccabees 10…5Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. 6And they kept eight days with joy, after the manner of the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long before they had kept the feast of the tabernacles when they were in the mountains, and in dens like wild beasts. 7Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.… Cross References 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. 2 Maccabees 10:5 Now upon the same day that the temple had been polluted by the strangers on the very same day it was cleansed again; to wit, on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu. 2 Maccabees 10:7 Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place. 2 Maccabees 10:8 And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year. |