2 Maccabees 9:16
Good News Translation
I once looted the Temple and took its sacred utensils, but I will fill it with splendid gifts and with better utensils than before, and I will pay the cost of the sacrifices from my own resources.

New Revised Standard Version
and the holy sanctuary, which he had formerly plundered, he would adorn with the finest offerings; and all the holy vessels he would give back, many times over; and the expenses incurred for the sacrifices he would provide from his own revenues;

Contemporary English Version
Some time ago, I robbed the holy temple in Jerusalem of its sacred dishes. But now I'm going to fill the temple with expensive gifts and return those sacred dishes, so there will be more of them than ever before. And I'll pay for all the sacrifices with my own money.

New American Bible
that he would adorn with the finest offerings the holy temple which he had previously despoiled, restore all the sacred vessels many times over, and provide from his own revenues the expenses required for the sacrifices.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.

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.

2 Maccabees 9:17
Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.

2 Maccabees 9:18
But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words:

Context
2 Maccabees 9
15And 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. 16The holy temple also, which before he had spoiled, he promised to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices. 17Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.…
Cross References
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.

2 Maccabees 9:17
Yea also, that he would become a Jew himself, and would go through every place of the earth, and declare the power of God.

2 Maccabees 9:18
But his pains not ceasing, (for the just judgment of God was come upon him) despairing of life, he wrote to the Jews, in the manner of a supplication, a letter in these words:



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2 Maccabees 9:15
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