2 Maccabees 3:38
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
“If you have any enemy or plotter against your government, send him there, for you will get him back thoroughly flogged, if he survives at all; for there is certainly some power of God about the place.

Contemporary English Version
"Send someone you don't like or an enemy of your government! Whoever you send will be killed or badly beaten, because God's power surrounds the Jerusalem temple.

New American Bible
“If you have an enemy or one who is plotting against the government, send him there, and you will get him back with a flogging, if indeed he survives at all; for there is certainly some divine power about the place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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 3:36
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.

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.



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2 Maccabees 3:37
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