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The troops of Timotheus, recognising that this was Maccabaeus, fled before his advance; Maccabaeus dealt them a crushing defeat; about eight thousand of their men fell that day. (1 Maccabees 5, 34)
while Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had advanced to attack them with a hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very large army, had also suffered defeat at their hands; (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
Bacchides deliberately chose the enemies of religion to administer the country. (1 Maccabees 9, 25)
'Since your brother Judas died, there has been no one like him to head the resistance against our enemies, people like Bacchides and others who hate our nation. (1 Maccabees 9, 29)
This is the moment to call on Heaven, to deliver you from the clutches of your enemies.' (1 Maccabees 9, 46)
'We have heard how you have kept your agreement with us and have maintained friendly relations with us and have not gone over to our enemies, and it has given us great satisfaction. (1 Maccabees 10, 26)
since we have the support of Heaven to help us, thanks to which we have been delivered from our enemies, and they are the ones who have been brought low. (1 Maccabees 12, 15)
He stood firm, he and his brothers and his father's house: he fought off the enemies of Israel and secured its freedom.' So they recorded an inscription on bronze tablets and set it up on pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
'When there was almost incessant fighting in the country Simon, son of Mattathias, a priest of the line of Joarib, and his brothers courted danger and withstood their nation's enemies to safeguard the integrity of their sanctuary and of the Law, and so brought their nation great glory; (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
but Simon gave him this answer, 'We have not taken foreign territory or any alien property but have occupied our ancestral heritage, for some time unjustly wrested from us by our enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
At this, Simon summoned his two elder sons, Judas and John, and said to them, 'My brothers and I, and my father's House, have fought the enemies of Israel from our youth until today, and many a time we have been successful in rescuing Israel. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But all this brought its own retribution; the very people whose way of life they envied, whom they sought to resemble in everything, proved to be their enemies and executioners. (2 Maccabees 4, 16)
