2 Maccabees 12:39
Good News Translation
By the following day it was urgent that they gather up the bodies of the men who had been killed in battle and bury them in their family tombs.

New Revised Standard Version
On the next day, as had now become necessary, Judas and his men went to take up the bodies of the fallen and to bring them back to lie with their kindred in the sepulchres of their ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
The next day, Judas and his troops had to collect the bodies of those who had been killed in battle and to bring them home for burial in their family graves.

New American Bible
On the following day, since the task had now become urgent, Judas and his companions went to gather up the bodies of the fallen and bury them with their kindred in their ancestral tombs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.

2 Maccabees 12:37
Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a loud voice, he put Gorgias's soldiers to flight.

2 Maccabees 12:38
So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place.

2 Maccabees 12:40
And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.

2 Maccabees 12:41
Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.

Context
2 Maccabees 12
38So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place. 39And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers. 40And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 12:37
Then beginning in his own language, and singing hymns with a loud voice, he put Gorgias's soldiers to flight.

2 Maccabees 12:38
So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the same place.

2 Maccabees 12:40
And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.

2 Maccabees 12:41
Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.



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2 Maccabees 12:38
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