New Revised Standard Version
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Contemporary English Version
They said to themselves, "We'll crush them!" Then they burned every one of your meeting places all over the country.

New American Bible
They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all! Burn all the assembly-places of God in the land!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

said

Psalm 83:4 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Esther 3:8,9 And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered through all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from another, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the king's ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity. . . .

destroy.

2 Kings 2:3,5 The sons of the prophets, that were at Bethel, came forth to Eliseus, and said to him: Dost thou know that, this day, the Lord will take away thy master from thee? And he answered: I also know it: hold your peace. . . .

2 Kings 4:23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

2 Chronicles 17:9 And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of the law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and instructed the people.

Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.