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In vain they sought to dissuade him; Speed we may not, they said; let us save our skins now, we may yet join hands with our brethren, and do battle hereafter; why, we are but a handful! (1 Maccabees 9, 9)
Nay, said Judas, that may I never do; what, shew them our backs? If our time is come, die we manfully in our brethren’s cause, nor suffer any foul blot to fall on our name! (1 Maccabees 9, 10)
What a sight was this met their eyes! All manner of rout and display; the bridegroom, his friends and his brethren, passing on their way to the trysting-place, with beating of drums, and making of music, and all manner of warlike array! (1 Maccabees 9, 39)
King Alexander heard of these overtures made by Demetrius; heard, too, the story of Jonathan and his brethren, battles fought, and deeds done, and labours endured. (1 Maccabees 10, 15)
The high priest Jonathan, with the elders and priests and all the people of the Jews, to their brethren the Spartans, greeting. (1 Maccabees 12, 6)
And thus, to put heart into them, he spoke: Need is none to tell you what battles we have fought, what dangers endured, I and my brethren and all my father’s kin, law and sanctuary to defend. (1 Maccabees 13, 3)
Over the graves of his father and his brethren Simon raised a towering monument, of dressed stone behind and before; (1 Maccabees 13, 27)
then, with father and mother and his four brethren in mind, he built seven pyramids, in rows; (1 Maccabees 13, 28)
they wrote to him on tablets made of bronze, to renew the treaty of friendship they had with his brethren, Judas and Jonathan, before him;✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
Simon and his brethren, sons of Mattathias, of Jarib’s clan, put their lives in peril, and fought for law and sanctuary against the common enemy, much glory winning for their own nation. (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
To their brethren, the Jews of Egypt, those of Jerusalem and Judaea send brotherly greeting and good health.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 1)
Speak we of Judas Machabaeus and his brethren, and how the great temple was purified, and the altar hallowed anew;✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 20)
