2 Maccabees 7:20
Good News Translation
The mother was the most amazing one of them all, and she deserves a special place in our memory. Although she saw her seven sons die in a single day, she endured it with great courage because she trusted in the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Although she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
The mother of these young men was a wonderful woman, and she deserves to be remembered with praise. She saw all seven of her sons die on the same day, but she was brave and never stopped trusting the Lord.

New American Bible
Most admirable and worthy of everlasting remembrance was the mother who, seeing her seven sons perish in a single day, bore it courageously because of her hope in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:

2 Maccabees 7:18
After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of admiration are done to us:

2 Maccabees 7:19
But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou hast attempted to fight against God.

2 Maccabees 7:21
And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,

2 Maccabees 7:22
She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.

Context
2 Maccabees 7
19But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou hast attempted to fight against God. 20Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: 21And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 7:18
After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of admiration are done to us:

2 Maccabees 7:19
But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou hast attempted to fight against God.

2 Maccabees 7:21
And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom; and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,

2 Maccabees 7:22
She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.



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2 Maccabees 7:19
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