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When the Jews heard of Nicanor's coming, and that the Gentiles were rallying to him, they sprinkled themselves with earth and prayed to him who established his people forever, and who always comes to the aid of his heritage. (2 Maccabees 14, 15)
Judas' brother Simon had engaged Nicanor, but because of the sudden appearance of the enemy suffered a slight repulse. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)
However, when Nicanor heard of the valor of Judas and his men, and the great courage with which they fought for their country, he shrank from deciding the issue by bloodshed. (2 Maccabees 14, 18)
Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem, where he did nothing out of place. He got rid of the throngs of ordinary people who gathered around him; (2 Maccabees 14, 23)
When Alcimus saw their friendship for each other, he took the treaty that had been made, went to Demetrius, and said that Nicanor was plotting against the state, and that he had appointed Judas, the conspirator against the kingdom, to be his successor. (2 Maccabees 14, 26)
Stirred up by the villain's calumnies, the king became enraged. He wrote to Nicanor, stating that he was displeased with the treaty, and ordering him to send Maccabeus as a prisoner to Antioch without delay. (2 Maccabees 14, 27)
When this message reached Nicanor he was dismayed, for he hated to break his agreement with a man who had done no wrong. (2 Maccabees 14, 28)
But Maccabeus noticed that Nicanor was becoming cool in his dealings with him, and acting with unaccustomed rudeness when they met; he concluded that this coldness betokened no good. So he gathered together a large number of his men, and went into hiding from Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)
When Nicanor realized that he had been disgracefully outwitted by the man, he went to the great and holy temple, at a time when the priests were offering the customary sacrifices, and ordered them to surrender Judas. (2 Maccabees 14, 31)
A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a patriot. A man highly regarded, he was called a father of the Jews because of his love for them. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
Nicanor, to show his detestation of the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him. (2 Maccabees 14, 39)
When Nicanor learned that Judas and his companions were in the territory of Samaria, he decided to attack them in all safety on the day of rest. (2 Maccabees 15, 1)
