1 Maccabees 3:20
Good News Translation
Our enemies are coming against us with great violence, intending to plunder our possessions and kill our wives and children.

New Revised Standard Version
They come against us in great insolence and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children, and to despoil us;

Contemporary English Version
Seron and his troops are arrogant sinners who want to kill us and our families, so they can steal everything we own.

New American Bible
With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.

1 Maccabees 3:18
And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:

1 Maccabees 3:19
For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven.

1 Maccabees 3:21
But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:

1 Maccabees 3:22
And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as for you, fear them not

Context
1 Maccabees 3
19For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven. 20They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils. 21But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 3:18
And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:

1 Maccabees 3:19
For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven.

1 Maccabees 3:21
But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:

1 Maccabees 3:22
And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as for you, fear them not



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