Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation They said, "We will all die with a clear conscience. Let heaven and earth bear witness that you are slaughtering us unjustly." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 1 Maccabees 2:35And they made haste to give them battle. 1 Maccabees 2:36 But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 1 Maccabees 2:38 So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. 1 Maccabees 2:39 And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly. Context 1 Maccabees 2…36But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 37Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully. 38So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 2:35 And they made haste to give them battle. 1 Maccabees 2:36 But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places, 1 Maccabees 2:38 So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons. 1 Maccabees 2:39 And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly. |
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