Good News Bible Anglicised

2 Maccabees 7:1-3 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

1. On another occasion a Jewish mother and her seven sons were arrested. The king was having them beaten to force them to eat pork.

2. Then one of the young men said, “What do you hope to gain by doing this? We would rather die than abandon the traditions of our ancestors.”

3. This made the king so furious that he gave orders for huge pans and cauldrons to be heated red-hot,