Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But now, carrying green palm branches and sticks decorated with ivy, they paraded around, singing grateful praises to him who had brought about the purification of his own Temple. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Therefore they now carried boughs and green branches and palms, for him that had given them good success in cleansing his place. 2 Maccabees 10:5Now 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. 2 Maccabees 10:6 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 10:8 And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year. 2 Maccabees 10:9 And this was the end of Antiochus, that was called the Illustrious. Context 2 Maccabees 10…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. 8And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year.… Cross References 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 10:6 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 10:8 And they ordained by a common statute, and decree, that all the nation of the Jews should keep those days every year. 2 Maccabees 10:9 And this was the end of Antiochus, that was called the Illustrious. |