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The Jews made their entry on the twenty-third day of the second month in the year 171, with acclamations and carrying palms, to the sound of lyres, cymbals and harps, chanting hymns and canticles, since a great enemy had been crushed and thrown out of Israel. Simon made it a day of annual rejoicing. (1 Maccabees 13, 51)
When Arsaces king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius had entered his territory, he sent one of his generals to capture him alive. (1 Maccabees 14, 2)
No enemy was left in the land to fight them, the very kings of those times had been crushed. (1 Maccabees 14, 13)
the enemy planned to invade the country, intending to devastate their territory and to lay hands on their sanctuary, (1 Maccabees 14, 31)
fortifying the towns of Judaea, as well as Beth-Zur on the Judaean frontier where the enemy arsenal had formerly been, and stationing in it a garrison of Jewish soldiers; (1 Maccabees 14, 33)
fortifying Joppa on the coast, and Gezer on the borders of Azotus, a place formerly inhabited by the enemy, founding a Jewish colony there, and providing the settlers with everything they needed to set them on their feet; (1 Maccabees 14, 34)
You have laid waste their territory and done immense harm to the country; and you have seized control of many places properly in my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 15, 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)
Their flight took them as far as the towers in the countryside of Azotus, and John burnt these down. The enemy losses amounted to ten thousand men; John returned safely to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 16, 10)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
Simon now had the effrontery to name this benefactor of the city, this protector of his compatriots, this zealot for the laws, as an enemy of the public good. (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
while, as a result of the greed of the powerful, Menelaus remained in power, growing more wicked than ever and establishing himself as the chief enemy of his fellow-citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
