Logos Bible Study

2 Maccabees 5:24–26

The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English VersionOther versions

24oHe sent also that detestable pringleader qApollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age, and to sell the women and the younger sort: 25who coming to Jerusalem, and rpretending peace, did forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves. 26And so he slew all them that were gone to the scelebrating of the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons tslew great multitudes.

Read in Logos

Cross references

  1. o1 Macc. 1. 29–32.
  2. pActs 24. 5 (Engl.).
  3. q1 Macc. 3. 10, 12? ch. 4. 21.
  4. rch. 6. 21, 24 (Gk.). See Luke 20. 20.
  5. sLuke 23. 48 (Gk.).
  6. tSo ch. 8. 3.