1 Maccabees 7:18
Good News Translation
When this happened, all the people were afraid of Alcimus and Bacchides, and they said, "They don't know what truth or justice means. They gave their solemn word and then broke it!"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the fear and dread of them fell on all the people, for they said, “There is no truth or justice in them, for they have violated the agreement and the oath that they swore.”

Contemporary English Version
Everyone started trembling with fear and said, "Alcimus and Bacchides are deceitful liars who never keep their word."

New American Bible
Then fear and dread of them came upon all the people, who said: “There is no truth or justice among them; they violated the agreement and the oath that they swore.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said: There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the covenant, and the oath which they made.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said: There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the covenant, and the oath which they made.

1 Maccabees 7:16
And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written:

1 Maccabees 7:17
The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

1 Maccabees 7:19
And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.

1 Maccabees 7:20
Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king.

Context
1 Maccabees 7
17The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. 18Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said: There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the covenant, and the oath which they made. 19And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 7:16
And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written:

1 Maccabees 7:17
The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

1 Maccabees 7:19
And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.

1 Maccabees 7:20
Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king.



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1 Maccabees 7:17
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