Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation On the advice of Ptolemy, the neighboring Greek cities were also instructed to require Jews to eat the sacrifices; New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice: 2 Maccabees 6:6And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew. 2 Maccabees 6:7 But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. 2 Maccabees 6:9 And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen. 2 Maccabees 6:10 For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls. Context 2 Maccabees 6…7But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. 8And there went out a decree into the neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they also should act in like manner against the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice: 9And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 6:6 And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew. 2 Maccabees 6:7 But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. 2 Maccabees 6:9 And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen. 2 Maccabees 6:10 For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls. |