2 Maccabees 2:16
Good News Translation
"Since we are about to celebrate the Festival of Rededication, we are writing to you, advising you to celebrate it as well.

New Revised Standard Version
Since, therefore, we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. Will you therefore please keep the days?

Contemporary English Version
We are ready to celebrate the Temple Festival, and so we are writing to say that you should celebrate it as well.

New American Bible
As we are about to celebrate the purification, we are writing: you should celebrate the feast days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.

2 Maccabees 2:14
And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things as were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession.

2 Maccabees 2:15
Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch them to you.

2 Maccabees 2:17
And we hope that God, who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

2 Maccabees 2:18
As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place.

Context
2 Maccabees 2
15Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch them to you. 16As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days. 17And we hope that God, who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 2:14
And in like manner Judas also gathered together all such things as were lost by the war we had, and they are in our possession.

2 Maccabees 2:15
Wherefore, if you want these things, send some that may fetch them to you.

2 Maccabees 2:17
And we hope that God, who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

2 Maccabees 2:18
As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place.



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2 Maccabees 2:15
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