Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation "If you have an enemy or know of someone plotting against your government, send him. He will come back badly beaten, if he comes back at all, for some strange power from God is at work there. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy king dom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God. 2 Maccabees 3:36And he testified to all men the works of the great God, which he had seen with his own eyes. 2 Maccabees 3:37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said: 2 Maccabees 3:39 For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it. 2 Maccabees 3:40 And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out in this manner. Context 2 Maccabees 3…37And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said: 38If thou hast any enemy, or traitor to thy king dom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God. 39For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 3:36 And he testified to all men the works of the great God, which he had seen with his own eyes. 2 Maccabees 3:37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said: 2 Maccabees 3:39 For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it. 2 Maccabees 3:40 And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out in this manner. |