2MA 7:24 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ὁ δὲ Ἀντίοχος οἰόμενος καταφρονεῖσθαι, καὶ τὴν ὀνειδίζουσαν ὑφορώμενος φωνὴν, ἔτι τοῦ νεωτέρου περιόντος, οὐ μόνον διὰ λόγων ἐποιεῖτο τὴν παράκλησιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ διʼ ὅρκων ἐπίστου, ἅμα πλουτιεῖν καὶ μακαριστὸν ποιήσειν μεταθέμενον ἀπὸ τῶν πατρίων νόμων, καὶ φίλον ἕξειν, καὶ χρείας ἐμπιστεύσειν.
(Ho de Antioⱪos oiomenos katafroneisthai, kai taʸn oneidizousan huforōmenos fōnaʸn, eti tou neōterou periontos, ou monon dia logōn epoieito taʸn paraklaʸsin, alla kai diʼ horkōn epistou, hama ploutiein kai makariston poiaʸsein metathemenon apo tōn patriōn nomōn, kai filon hexein, kai ⱪreias empisteusein. )

BrTr Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.

WEBBE But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and[fn] raise him to high honour if he would turn from the ways of his ancestors, and that he would take him for his [fn]friend and entrust him with public affairs.

7:24 Gr. make him one that is counted happy.

7:24 See 2 Maccabees 8:9.

KJB-1611 Now Antiochus thinking himselfe despised, and suspecting it to be a reprochfull speach, whiles the yongest was yet aliue, did not onely exhort him by wordes, but also assured him with oathes, that he would make him both a rich, and a happy man, if hee would turne from the Lawes of his fathers, and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affaires.
(Now Antiochus thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reprochfull speech, whiles the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oathes, that he would make him both a rich, and a happy man, if he would turn from the Lawes of his fathers, and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affaires.)

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