2 Maccabees 14:25DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 25 of 46
"And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common."
In context
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.
27Then the king being in a rage and provoked with this man’s wicked accusations, wrote to Nicanor, signifying, that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.