Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation and led 80,000 infantry and all his cavalry against the Jews with the intention of turning Jerusalem into a Greek city. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles: 2 Maccabees 10:38And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, who had done great things in Israel, and given them the victory. 2 Maccabees 11:1 A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened, 2 Maccabees 11:3 And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: 2 Maccabees 11:4 Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants. Context 2 Maccabees 11…1A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened, 2Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles: 3And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:… Cross References 2 Maccabees 10:38 And when this was done, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, who had done great things in Israel, and given them the victory. 2 Maccabees 11:1 A short time after this Lysias, the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened, 2 Maccabees 11:3 And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: 2 Maccabees 11:4 Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants. |