Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But God, the King of kings, made Antiochus furious with Menelaus. Lysias proved to Antiochus that this criminal had been the source of all his troubles, so Antiochus ordered him to be taken to the city of Berea and put to death in the way that it was done there. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place. 2 Maccabees 13:2And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots. 2 Maccabees 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. 2 Maccabees 13:5 Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down. 2 Maccabees 13:6 From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. Context 2 Maccabees 13…3Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. 4But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place. 5Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 13:2 And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots. 2 Maccabees 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler. 2 Maccabees 13:5 Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down. 2 Maccabees 13:6 From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death. |