2 Maccabees 2:7
Good News Translation
When Jeremiah learned what they had done, he reprimanded them, saying, 'No one must know about this place until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy.

New Revised Standard Version
When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: “The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy.

Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah got angry with them when he discovered what they had tried to do, and he said: "No one can know about the cave until the Lord God has pity on us again and brings our people back home.

New American Bible
When Jeremiah heard of this, he reproved them: “The place is to remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy.

2 Maccabees 2:5
And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

2 Maccabees 2:6
Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it.

2 Maccabees 2:8
And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.

2 Maccabees 2:9
For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise man, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing of the temple.

Context
2 Maccabees 2
6Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it. 7And when Jeremias perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown, till God gather together the congregation of the people, and receive them to mercy. 8And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 2:5
And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

2 Maccabees 2:6
Then some of them that followed him, came up to mark the place: but they could not find it.

2 Maccabees 2:8
And then the Lord will shew these things, and the majesty of the Lord shall appear, and there shall be a cloud as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.

2 Maccabees 2:9
For he treated wisdom in a magnificent manner: and like a wise man, he offered the sacrifice of the dedication, and of the finishing of the temple.



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2 Maccabees 2:6
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