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and die they must, because they would not break God’s holy law. (1 Maccabees 1, 66)
Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
So they went out in pursuit, and offered battle; on a sabbath day, as it chanced.✻ (1 Maccabees 2, 32)
But the Jews’ answer was, come out and yield to the king’s pleasure they might not; law of the sabbath rest forbade it. (1 Maccabees 2, 34)
Thus, because it was a sabbath day when the attack was made, these men perished, and their wives and children and cattle with them; a thousand human lives lost. (1 Maccabees 2, 38)
Then and there it was resolved, if any should attack them on the sabbath day, to engage him, else they should be put to death all of them, like those brethren of theirs in the covert of the hills. (1 Maccabees 2, 41)
What saw they? The holy place desolate, the altar profaned, charred gates, courts overgrown with brushwood, like forest clearing or mountain glen, the priests’ lodging in ruins. (1 Maccabees 4, 38)
And what did Judas? First, he sent a force to engage the citadel’s garrison, while the holy place was a-cleansing; (1 Maccabees 4, 41)
incense be put on the altar, lamps kindled to light the holy place, (1 Maccabees 4, 50)
Meanwhile, what of the Jews that dwelt about the holy place? Here was the garrison of the citadel hemming them in, seeking ever to do them injury, and to sustain the Gentile cause. (1 Maccabees 6, 18)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
