Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Ptolemy then asked the king to go outside the courtroom with him, as though to get some fresh air, and there he persuaded him to change his mind New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: 2 Maccabees 4:44And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him. 2 Maccabees 4:45 But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him. 2 Maccabees 4:47 So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death. 2 Maccabees 4:48 Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. Context 2 Maccabees 4…45But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him. 46So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: 47So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 4:44 And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him. 2 Maccabees 4:45 But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him. 2 Maccabees 4:47 So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death. 2 Maccabees 4:48 Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. |