2 Maccabees 3:13
Good News Translation
But Heliodorus insisted that the money should be taken for the royal treasury, as the king had ordered.

New Revised Standard Version
But Heliodorus, because of the orders he had from the king, said that this money must in any case be confiscated for the king’s treasury.

Contemporary English Version
Heliodorus answered, "King Seleucus has ordered me to collect the money for the royal treasury, and I'm going to do just that."

New American Bible
But Heliodorus, because of the orders he had from the king, said that in any case this money must be confiscated for the royal treasury.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

2 Maccabees 3:11
And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold.

2 Maccabees 3:12
But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

2 Maccabees 3:14
So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

2 Maccabees 3:15
And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.

Context
2 Maccabees 3
12But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done. 13But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king. 14So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 3:11
And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold.

2 Maccabees 3:12
But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

2 Maccabees 3:14
So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

2 Maccabees 3:15
And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.



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