Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation "I hope that you and your families are in good health and that all goes well with you. My hope is in God, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. 2 Maccabees 9:18But 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: 2 Maccabees 9:19 To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness. 2 Maccabees 9:21 As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good: 2 Maccabees 9:22 Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness. Context 2 Maccabees 9…19To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness. 20If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks. 21As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good:… Cross References 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: 2 Maccabees 9:19 To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wisheth much health, and welfare, and happiness. 2 Maccabees 9:21 As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good: 2 Maccabees 9:22 Not distrusting my life, but having great hope to escape the sickness. |