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After a while, the king sent an older Athenian to force the Jews to abandon their ancestral laws and no longer live according to the laws of God. (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
At the suggestion of the inhabit-ants of Ptolemy, a decree was sent to the neighboring Greek cities ordering them to treat the Jews who lived there in the same way and oblige them to participate in the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
Ptolemy at once appointed Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the king's first Friends, and sent him at the head of some twenty thousand men coming from all nations, with the order to wipe out all the Jews. At his side, he put Gorgias, a general of much experience in matters of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
He also reminded them of what had happened in Babylonia, in the battle against the Galatians. On that day, eight thousand Jews fought side by side with four thousand Macedonians, and as the Macedonians were hard pressed, their Jewish allies alone killed twenty thousand of the enemies' troops with heaven's help and seized a great booty. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
They seized the money of those who had come to buy the Jews, and pursued them for a good while. But it was nearly evening, (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
They killed the chief guard of Timotheus, an extremely wretched man who had done so much evil against the Jews. (2 Maccabees 8, 32)
The thrice-as-wretched Nicanor, who had brought thousands of merchants to buy the Jews, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
He who had intended to pay the tribute owed to the Romans by selling the Jews, now affirmed that the Jews were invincible and invulnerable, and that Someone fought for them, provided they were obeying the laws prescribed by him. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
He was infuriated and determined to take revenge on the Jews for the offense he had just received in Persepolis when they forced him to flee. He ordered the chariot driver to hurry up and not to stop until the journey's end. But the judgment of God was coming upon him, for he said in his pride, "As soon as I arrive in Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a cemetery of the Jews." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
But this did not diminish his arrogance. In his rage against the Jews, he gave orders to journey ahead with even more speed. Yet, because his chariot was running very fast, Antiochus fell and his physical condition worsened. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
Moreover, he who before had refused burial to the Jews and wished to throw them with their children to the wild beasts, now offered to make them equal with the Athenians. He had plundered the temple and profaned the Sacred Place; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
His pains however did not diminish, for the just judgment of God had come upon him. He lost hope of recovery and wrote to the Jews this letter of supplication, (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
