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For I know that Yahweh is great, our Lord is above all gods. (Psalms 135, 5)
Give thanks to the God of gods, for his faithful love endures for ever. (Psalms 136, 2)
The king also sent edicts by messenger to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, directing them to adopt customs foreign to the country, (1 Maccabees 1, 44)
For the guidance that the gentiles would have sought from the images of their false gods, they opened the Book of the Law. (1 Maccabees 3, 48)
Judas next turned on Azotus, which belonged to the Philistines; he overthrew their altars, burned the statues of their gods and, having pillaged their towns, withdrew to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
This, I am convinced, is why these misfortunes have overtaken me, and why I am dying of melancholy in a foreign land.' (1 Maccabees 6, 13)
When King Demetrius saw that the country was at peace under his rule and that no resistance was offered him, he dismissed his forces, and sent all the men home, except for the foreign troops that he had recruited in the foreign island, thus incurring the enmity of the veterans who had served his ancestors. (1 Maccabees 11, 38)
About three thousand of the foreign troops fell that day. Jonathan then returned to Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 11, 74)
but Simon gave him this answer, 'We have not taken foreign territory or any alien property but have occupied our ancestral heritage, for some time unjustly wrested from us by our enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
He who had exiled so many from their fatherland, himself perished on foreign soil, having travelled to Sparta, hoping that, for kinship's sake, he might find harbour there. (2 Maccabees 5, 9)
'Now that our father has taken his place among the gods, our will is that the subjects of the realm be left undisturbed to attend to their own affairs. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
for they had strayed too far on the paths of error by taking the vilest and most despicable of animals for gods, being deluded like silly little children. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 24)
