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But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
At the last having been shut up by Aretas the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws, and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt: (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to rob treasury, so this man also, as soon as had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his presumption. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they wore compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought, which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded of the flesh of the sacrifice: (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
To came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
Then the king being angry commanded fryingpans, and brazen caldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated, (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. (2 Maccabees 7, 12)
