2 Maccabees 14:24DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 24 of 46
"And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man."
In context
22But Judas ordered men to be ready in convenient places, lest some mischief might he suddenly practiced by the enemies: so they made an agreeable conference.
23And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no wrong, but sent away the flocks of the multitudes that had been gathered together.
24And Judas was always dear to him from the heart, and he was well affected to the man.
25And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common.
26But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor.