Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

2 Maccabees 8:30-34 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

30. Moreover they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with Timotheus and Bacchides who fought them, and they made themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless and the widows, yea and the aged also.

31. And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem:

32. They slew also Philarches who was with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had many ways afflicted the Jews.

33. And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties:

34. But as for that most wicked man Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to the sale of the Jews,