Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation While celebrating their victory in the city of their ancestors, they burned alive those men who had set fire to the Temple gates. The dead included Callisthenes, who had hidden in a small house; and so he received the punishment he deserved for his evil deeds. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties: 2 Maccabees 8:31And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem: 2 Maccabees 8:32 They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews. 2 Maccabees 8:34 But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews, 2 Maccabees 8:35 Being, through the help of the Lord, brought down by them, of whom he had made no account, laying aside his garment of glory, fleeing through the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered very unhappy by the destruction of his army. Context 2 Maccabees 8…32They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews. 33And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties: 34But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews,… Cross References 2 Maccabees 8:31 And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem: 2 Maccabees 8:32 They slew also Philarches, who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews. 2 Maccabees 8:34 But as for that most wicked man, Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews, 2 Maccabees 8:35 Being, through the help of the Lord, brought down by them, of whom he had made no account, laying aside his garment of glory, fleeing through the midland country, he came alone to Antioch, being rendered very unhappy by the destruction of his army. |