1 Maccabees 2:36
Good News Translation
but the Jews did nothing to resist; they did not even throw stones or block the entrances to the caves where they were hiding.

New Revised Standard Version
But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places,

Contemporary English Version
But the Jews did not try to defend themselves; not one of them threw a rock or even tried to pile up rocks in front of the caves.

New American Bible
But they did not retaliate; they neither threw stones, nor blocked up their secret refuges.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,

1 Maccabees 2:34
And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.

1 Maccabees 2:35
And they made haste to give them battle.

1 Maccabees 2:37
Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:38
So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.

Context
1 Maccabees 2
35And they made haste to give them battle. 36But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 37Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 2:34
And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.

1 Maccabees 2:35
And they made haste to give them battle.

1 Maccabees 2:37
Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:38
So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.



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1 Maccabees 2:35
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