Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When Your Majesty has examined all the details of these matters, please act in your usual kind and generous manner to relieve the oppression of our nation and its people. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men. 2 Maccabees 14:7For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither: 2 Maccabees 14:8 Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men. 2 Maccabees 14:10 For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet. 2 Maccabees 14:11 Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him. Context 2 Maccabees 14…8Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men. 9Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, take care, I beseech thee, both of the country, and of our nation, according to thy humanity which is known to all men. 10For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 14:7 For I also being deprived of my ancestor's glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither: 2 Maccabees 14:8 Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of these men. 2 Maccabees 14:10 For as long as Judas liveth it is not possible that the state should be quiet. 2 Maccabees 14:11 Now when this man had spoken to this effect the rest also of the king's friends, who were enemies of Judas, incensed Demetrius against him. |