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after being humbled through the Lord's help by those whom he had thought of no account, laid aside his fine clothes and fled alone across country like a runaway slave, until he reached Antioch. He was eminently successful in destroying his own army. (2 Maccabees 8, 35)
Menelaus also joined them, and with great duplicity kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his country, but in the hope of being established in office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
when they were about to be deprived of their law, their country, and their holy temple; and not to allow this nation, which had just begun to revive, to be subjected again to blasphemous Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
Leaving the outcome to the Creator of the world, and exhorting his followers to fight nobly to death for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the government, he pitched his camp near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
and that he had occupied the country, after doing away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias. (2 Maccabees 14, 2)
When you have informed yourself in detail on these matters, O king, act in the interest of our country and its hard-pressed people with the same gracious consideration that you show toward all. (2 Maccabees 14, 9)
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)
Those who remained in the city suffered a like agony, anxious as they were about the battle in the open country. (2 Maccabees 15, 19)
Like cool water to one faint from thirst is good news from a far country. (Proverbs 25, 25)
Yet an advantage for a country in every respect is a king for the arable land. (Ecclesiastes 5, 8)
Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land before your eyes strangers devour (a waste, like Sodom overthrown)-- (Isaiah 1, 7)
Men shall go there with bow and arrows; for all the country shall be briers and thorns. (Isaiah 7, 24)
