1 Maccabees 2:13
Good News Translation
Why should we go on living?"

New Revised Standard Version
Why should we live any longer?”

Contemporary English Version
We'd be better off dead!

New American Bible
Why are we still alive?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
To what end then should we live any longer?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To what end then should we live any longer?

1 Maccabees 2:11
All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a slave.

1 Maccabees 2:12
And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them.

1 Maccabees 2:14
And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.

1 Maccabees 2:15
And they that were sent from king Antiochus, came thither, to compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to depart from the law of God.

Context
1 Maccabees 2
12And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them. 13To what end then should we live any longer? 14And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 2:11
All her ornaments are taken away. She that was free is made a slave.

1 Maccabees 2:12
And behold our sanctuary, and our beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and the Gentiles have defiled them.

1 Maccabees 2:14
And Mathathias and his sons rent their garments, and they covered themselves with haircloth, and made great lamentation.

1 Maccabees 2:15
And they that were sent from king Antiochus, came thither, to compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to depart from the law of God.



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1 Maccabees 2:12
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