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(There was also Eleazar.) After reading to them from the holy book and giving them the watchword, "The Help of God," he himself took charge of the first division and joined in battle with Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
So the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him down with an unseen but incurable blow; for scarcely had he uttered those words when he was seized with excruciating pains in his bowels and sharp internal torment, (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
Thus he who previously, in his superhuman presumption, thought he could command the waves of the sea, and imagined he could weigh the mountaintops in his scales, was now thrown to the ground and had to be carried on a litter, clearly manifesting to all the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
At last, broken in spirit, he began to give up his excessive arrogance, and to gain some understanding, under the scourge of God, for he was racked with pain unceasingly. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)
When he could no longer bear his own stench, he said, "It is right to be subject to God, and not to think one's mortal self divine." (2 Maccabees 9, 12)
Besides all this, he would become a Jew himself and visit every inhabited place to proclaim there the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
But since God's punishment had justly come upon him, his sufferings were not lessened, so he lost hope for himself and wrote the following letter to the Jews in the form of a supplication. It read thus: Death of Antiochus (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
If you and your children are well and your affairs are going as you wish, I thank God very much, for my hopes are in heaven. (2 Maccabees 9, 20)
Now we shall relate what happened under Antiochus Eupator, the son of that godless man, and shall give a summary of the chief evils caused by the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
Maccabeus and his companions, after public prayers asking God to be their ally, moved quickly against the strongholds of the Idumeans. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
At his approach, Maccabeus and his men made supplication to God, sprinkling earth upon their heads and girding their loins in sackcloth. (2 Maccabees 10, 25)
He did not take God's power into account at all, but felt exultant confidence in his myriads of foot soldiers, his thousands of horsemen, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
