2 Maccabees 8:33
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
While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their ancestors, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house; so these received the proper reward for their impiety.

Contemporary English Version
Then we celebrated our victory in Jerusalem, the city of our ancestors, and found Callisthenes and some other enemies hiding in a small house. They had earlier set the gates of our holy temple on fire, so we burned them alive, just as they deserved.

New American Bible
While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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 8:31
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.

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.



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2 Maccabees 8:32
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