Font Size
1 Maccabees 3:38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 3:38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Preparations for Battle
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,(A)
Read full chapter
2 Maccabees 8:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 8:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Then Ptolemy[a] promptly appointed Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king’s First[b] Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nations, to wipe out the entire people of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service.(A)
Read full chapter
2 Maccabees 12:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 12:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Judas Defeats Gorgias
32 After the festival called Pentecost, they hurried against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea,(A)
Read full chapter
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.