4 Maccabees 3:10

13 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

ASV Byzantine Text

but the king, being very much athirst, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

Brenton English Septuagint

but the king, being very much athirst, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

LXX2012 U. S. English

but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

British English Septuagint 2012

but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

but the king, being very much athirst, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

World English Bible Classic

but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

World English Bible Updated

but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

but the king was extremely thirsty, and though springs were plentiful there, he could not satisfy his thirst from them.

French Free Holy Bible for the World

mais le roi, qui avait très soif, bien qu'il y eût de nombreuses sources, ne pouvait par leur moyen étancher sa soif ;

Brenton Septuagint

Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ὡς μάλιστα διψῶν, καίπερ ἀφθόνους ἔχων πηγὰς, οὐκ ἠδύνατο διʼ αὐτῶν ἰάσασθαι τὴν δίψαν·

Spanish BLL

pero el rey tenía muchísima sed, y aunque tenía varios manantiales cerca, no podía quitarse la sed con ellos.

Spanish Free Bible for the World

pero el rey, estando muy sediento, aunque tenía numerosos manantiales, no pudo saciar su sed por medio de ellos;

When was this written?

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 20 AD–100 AD Anonymous
A philosophical treatise in Greek, written under Roman rule.

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Who ruled Rome

Emperors reigning while this book is dated. Where the traditions differ, they often fall under different rulers.

Broad agreement

Tiberius 14 AD–37 AD
Emperor through the ministry of Jesus. Pontius Pilate governed Judea under him.
Caligula 37 AD–41 AD
A short and erratic reign; his order to place a statue of himself in the Jerusalem temple was abandoned only at his death.
Claudius 41 AD–54 AD
Expelled Jews from Rome, which is why Priscilla and Aquila were in Corinth when Paul met them.
Nero 54 AD–68 AD
The fire of Rome in 64 was followed by the first state persecution of Christians. Paul and Peter are traditionally martyred in this reign.
Galba, Otho and Vitellius 68 AD–69 AD
The year of four emperors: civil war across the empire after Nero's death.
Vespasian 69 AD–79 AD
Took power at the end of the civil war. His son Titus completed the siege of Jerusalem in 70.
Titus 79 AD–81 AD
Commanded the army that destroyed the Jerusalem temple before becoming emperor.
Domitian 81 AD–96 AD
An autocratic reign under which Revelation is traditionally placed, on the testimony of Irenaeus.
Nerva 96 AD–98 AD
A brief reign that eased the pressures of Domitian's last years.
Trajan 98 AD–117 AD
His correspondence with Pliny the Younger is the earliest surviving statement of official Roman policy toward Christians.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (20 AD–100 AD).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
206 BC–220 AD The Han dynasty China
Four centuries of Chinese rule contemporary with the whole of Roman expansion.
150 BC–100 AD Roman concrete and the aqueducts Rome
Hydraulic concrete let Rome build harbours, domes and aqueducts that still stand.
100 BC–550 AD Teotihuacan Mesoamerica
A city of perhaps a hundred thousand people in the valley of Mexico, with monumental pyramids.
43 AD–84 AD Rome conquers Britain Britain
Claudius invaded and the province was gradually extended to the Scottish lowlands.
66 AD–73 AD First Jewish–Roman war Levant
Revolt against Rome ending in the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70 — the decisive rupture in Second Temple Judaism.
27 BC–100 AD Roman road and sea network matures Rome
Consolidated roads, harbours and suppressed piracy made long-distance travel unusually safe, a precondition for the rapid spread of early Christian communities.