Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible 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 12:37Then 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. |