Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation and stoned him and his men from trap doors hidden in the ceiling. Then they cut up the bodies and threw the heads to the people outside. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth. 2 Maccabees 1:14For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. 2 Maccabees 1:15 And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, 2 Maccabees 1:17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. 2 Maccabees 1:18 Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built. Context 2 Maccabees 1…15And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, 16When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads, they threw them forth. 17Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 1:14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry. 2 Maccabees 1:15 And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple, 2 Maccabees 1:17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. 2 Maccabees 1:18 Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built. |