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When Gorgias was given command of the district, he was for ever making war on the Jews, with mercenaries to aid him; (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
But Timotheus could not be content with one defeat at the hands of the Jews; he would bring in hordes of foreign soldiery, and cavalry from Asia, threatening Judaea with slavery. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
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)
The letter sent to the Jews by Lysias was after this manner: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
But of one nation, the Jews, we hear that they resisted our father’s will, who would have had them conform to the Greek way of living; to their own tradition they hold fast, and their plea is, we should grant them the enjoyment of their rights in the matter. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
To the Jews themselves the king wrote as follows: King Antiochus, to the elders and people of the Jews, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
This was a very foul deed done by the men of Joppe; they fitted out certain vessels of theirs, and would have the neighbouring Jews go aboard, with their wives and children, for all the world as if there were no grudge between them. (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
It was the common wish of their fellow-citizens; how should the Jews gainsay it? They were lovers of peace, and cause for suspicion had none. Yet once they were on the high seas, they were cast overboard and drowned, a full two hundred of them. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
He had word, too, that the men of Jamnia meant to do the same by the Jews in their part; (2 Maccabees 12, 8)
It needed a march of ninety-five miles to bring them to Charax, where the Jews were whom they call Tubianaeans. (2 Maccabees 12, 17)
Yet strength is none can hold its own against the Omnipotent; to him the Jews made appeal, and so took the city, killing twenty-five thousand of the defenders. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
but here the Jews themselves bore witness, how kindly their neighbours used them, and how honourably they carried themselves even in troublous times. (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
