2 Maccabees 9:20
King James VersionSource notes
“If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.”
Context
17Yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.
18But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:
19Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:
20If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.
21As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
22Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
23But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,