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At that time, the king’s officers were enforcing the decrees to give up Jewish practice. They came to the town of Modein to make its people offer pagan sacrifice.
And they that were sent from king Antiochus came thither, to compel them that were fled into the city of Modin, to sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to depart from the law of God.
Then the king's officials, who were forcing the people to turn from God, came to the town of Modein to force the people there to offer pagan sacrifices.
The officers of the king in charge of enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Modein to make them sacrifice.
The officers of the king who had been commissioned to enforce the apostasy came to the town of Modein to ensure that the sacrifices were being offered.
The king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.
The king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.
The king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.
The king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.
Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Mo′de-in to make them offer sacrifice.
Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Mo′de-in to make them offer sacrifice.
And they that were sent of (or by) king Antiochus, came thither, for to constrain them that fled together into the city of Modin, for to offer and burn incenses, and for to depart from the law of God.
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