Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When Demetrius heard about it, he said, "I don't want to see them." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And when he knew it, he said: Let me not see their face. 1 Maccabees 7:1In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there. 1 Maccabees 7:2 And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring them unto him. 1 Maccabees 7:4 So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom: 1 Maccabees 7:5 And there came to him the wicked and ungodly men of Israel: and Alcimus was at the head of them, who desired to be made high priest. Context 1 Maccabees 7…2And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring them unto him. 3And when he knew it, he said: Let me not see their face. 4So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom:… Cross References 1 Maccabees 7:1 In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there. 1 Maccabees 7:2 And it came to pass as he entered into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army seized upon Antiochus, and Lysias, to bring them unto him. 1 Maccabees 7:4 So the army slew them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom: 1 Maccabees 7:5 And there came to him the wicked and ungodly men of Israel: and Alcimus was at the head of them, who desired to be made high priest. |