OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 8:32

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

32

They killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much harm.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

That is, probably, the captain of an irregular auxiliary force. Some write Phylarches, as a proper name.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter