Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation giving his men orders to cut down without mercy everyone they met and to slaughter anyone they found hiding in the houses. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay. 2 Maccabees 5:10But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers. 2 Maccabees 5:11 Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, 2 Maccabees 5:13 Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants. 2 Maccabees 5:14 And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold. Context 2 Maccabees 5…11Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, 12And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay. 13Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 5:10 But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers. 2 Maccabees 5:11 Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, 2 Maccabees 5:13 Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants. 2 Maccabees 5:14 And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold. |