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Antiochus, son of King Demetrius, sent a letter from the islands of the sea to Simon, the priest and ethnarch of the Jews, and to all the nation, (1 Maccabees 15, 1)
which read as follows: "King Antiochus sends greetings to Simon, the priest and ethnarch, and to the Jewish nation. (1 Maccabees 15, 2)
When we recover our kingdom, we will greatly honor you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will be manifest in all the earth." (1 Maccabees 15, 9)
I have now grown old, but you, by the mercy of Heaven, have come to man's estate. Take my place and my brother's, and go out and fight for our nation; and may the help of Heaven be with you!" (1 Maccabees 16, 3)
In the reign of Demetrius, the year one hundred and sixty-nine, we Jews wrote to you during the trouble and violence that overtook us in those years after Jason and his followers had revolted against the holy land and the kingdom, (2 Maccabees 1, 7)
it was he who drove out those who fought against the holy city. (2 Maccabees 1, 12)
Plant your people in your holy place, as Moses promised." (2 Maccabees 1, 29)
as he promised through the law. We trust in God, that he will soon have mercy on us and gather us together from everywhere under the heavens to his holy Place, for he has rescued us from great perils and has purified his Place. (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
While the holy city lived in perfect peace and the laws were strictly observed because of the piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of evil, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
the Jews praised the Lord who had marvelously glorified his holy Place; and the temple, charged so shortly before with fear and commotion, was filled with joy and gladness, now that the almighty Lord had manifested himself. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
Puffed up in spirit, Antiochus did not realize that it was because of the sins of the city's inhabitants that the Lord was angry for a little while and hence disregarded the holy Place. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
But he left governors to harass the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, and in character more cruel than the man who appointed him; (2 Maccabees 5, 22)
