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Sabbath none would observe, nor keep holiday his fathers kept; even the name of Jew was disclaimed. (2 Maccabees 6, 6)
Instead, they went to sacrifice on the king’s birthday, though it were ruefully and under duress; and when the feast of Liber came round, make procession they must in Liber’s honour, garlanded with ivy each one. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
At another time, Philip had information that certain Jews were meeting in caves near at hand, to keep the sabbath there without remark. Not one of these would lift a hand to help himself, so great care they had of the day’s observance, and all were burned to death. (2 Maccabees 6, 11)
And here was the greatest marvel of all, by honest folk ever to be kept in mind, that the mother of seven children should be content to lose them all in one day, for the hope she had in God’s mercy. (2 Maccabees 7, 20)
Arms and spoils of the fallen they gathered in, and so fell to keeping the sabbath, blessing the Lord for the deliverance he had sent that day, the first refreshing dew of his mercy. (2 Maccabees 8, 27)
The sabbath day over, they gave a share of the spoils to crippled folk, orphans and widows; they and theirs should have the rest. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
it was but yesterday the very stars seemed within his reach, and never a man now would carry so foul a burden. (2 Maccabees 9, 10)
It so fell out, that the temple was purified on the twenty-fifth day of Casleu, the very time of its profanation by the Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
Eight days of rejoicing they kept, with such ceremonies as belong to the feast of Tent-dwelling; it was a feast of tent-dwelling indeed they had kept a while back, when they lodged like beasts among the hill-side caverns! (2 Maccabees 10, 6)
Hard went the day, and, so it seemed to the enemy, heaven itself took part. Five horsemen came riding, with splendid trappings of gold, to lead the Jews onward; (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
twenty thousand and five hundred of them perished that day, besides six hundred of the cavalry. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
Four days together, Machabaeus and his men eagerly pressed on the siege of it; (2 Maccabees 10, 33)
