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But Machabaeus to that King made appeal, who needed neither engine nor battering-ram, in Josue’s day, to bring Jericho down in ruins; a fierce attack he delivered upon the walls, (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
And hereupon the King of all kings brought this guilty wretch into ill favour with his master Antiochus, who (upon Lysias’ averring, here was the true source of all their misadventures) would have him apprehended and put to death according to the custom of the place where they were quartered. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
Yet still the king pressed forward on his mad career, as if he would prove himself a worse enemy of Jewry than his father; (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
and himself called the elders to a council; his plan was, he told them, to march out and engage the king before he could reach Judaea and overpower the city, and the issue of it he would leave to the Lord’s good pleasure. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
the king had taste enough of Jewish valour, and set about to reduce the strongholds by policy. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
so the king was fain to parley with the defenders of Bethsura, and, upon agreed terms, the siege of it was raised. (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
as for Machabaeus, the king made a friend of him, and appointed him both governor and commander of all the territory from Ptolemais to the Gerrenes.✻ (2 Maccabees 13, 24)
until at last Lysias must go up to an open stage, and give his reasons; whereby he calmed the indignation of the people, and so returned to Antioch. Such was the king’s march upon Judaea, and such his homecoming. (2 Maccabees 13, 26)
and now he had recourse to king Demetrius, in the hundred and fiftieth year. He came with gifts, a gold crown and a palm branch, and wreaths that had been better employed in the service of the temple.✻ No word said he on the first day of his arriving; (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
first, the loyalty I have to the king’s own interest, but not less, the love of my own fellow-countrymen; by the false aims of a faction the whole of our race is brought into utter misery. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)
Do but satisfy thyself, my lord king, that all is as I have said, and then, with that kindliness the world knows so well, take order concerning the country and its inhabitants. (2 Maccabees 14, 9)
yet run counter to the king’s will he might not. So he began looking for an opportunity of carrying out his orders; (2 Maccabees 14, 29)
