Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The time of the Lord's mercy had come to an end for Antiochus, but this worthless man made the Lord a promise: New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy. 2 Maccabees 9:11And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. 2 Maccabees 9:12 And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God. 2 Maccabees 9:14 And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free: 2 Maccabees 9:15 And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians. Context 2 Maccabees 9…12And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God. 13Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy. 14And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:… Cross References 2 Maccabees 9:11 And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. 2 Maccabees 9:12 And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God. 2 Maccabees 9:14 And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free: 2 Maccabees 9:15 And the Jews, whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians. |
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