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No wonder if Judas and his brethren, with the whole assembly of Israel, made a decree that this feast should be kept year by year for eight days together, the feast-day of the altar’s dedication.✻ Came that season, from the twenty-fifth day of Casleu onwards, all was to be rejoicing and holiday. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
sent dispatches to Judas and his brethren. Here be all the neighbours, they wrote, banded together for our destruction. (1 Maccabees 5, 10)
Grave tidings, these, for Judas and his people; met they in high debate, and took counsel how they might best aid their brethren in peril of assault. (1 Maccabees 5, 16)
There the Nabuthaeans came to meet them, and gave them friendly welcome, and told them of all that had befallen their brethren in the Galaad country; (1 Maccabees 5, 25)
Now, cried Judas to his men, now to fight for your brethren’s deliverance! (1 Maccabees 5, 32)
because they would not listen to Judas and his brethren, but must be great warriors like the rest. (1 Maccabees 5, 61)
But still he and his brethren would be on the march, reducing the men of Edom in the south country; on Hebron and its daughter townships the blow fell, neither wall nor tower of it but was burned to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 65)
went off to gain the king’s audience. Wilt thou never bring redress, they asked, and do our brethren right? (1 Maccabees 6, 22)
And thus, in the royal presence, they defamed their own people: Here be Judas and his brethren have made away with all thy friends, and driven us out of our country! (1 Maccabees 7, 6)
So they took the road, and reached the land of Juda with a great army at their heels. Envoys they sent out, to cheat Judas and his brethren with fair promises; (1 Maccabees 7, 10)
This Nicanor, reaching Jerusalem with a great array, made peaceful overtures to Judas and his brethren, but treacherously; (1 Maccabees 7, 27)
We have been sent to you by Judas Machabaeus and his brethren, and by our countrymen at large, to make a treaty of alliance with you; fain would they be enrolled among your confederates and friends. (1 Maccabees 8, 20)
