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whereupon the cowardly ones and those who lacked confidence in the justice of God took to their heels and ran away. (2 Maccabees 8, 13)
The rest sold all their remaining possessions, at the same time praying the Lord to deliver them from the godless Nicanor, who had sold them even in advance of any encounter- (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
'They may put their trust in their weapons and their exploits,' he said, 'but our confidence is in almighty God, who is able with a single nod to overthrow both those marching on us and the whole world with them.' (2 Maccabees 8, 18)
Next, he ordered Esdrias to read the Holy Book aloud and gave them their watchword 'Help from God'. Then, putting himself at the head of the first division, he attacked Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with an incurable and unseen complaint. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he was seized with an incurable pain in his bowels and with excruciating internal torture; (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
He who only a little while before had thought in his superhuman boastfulness he could command the waves of the sea, he who had imagined he could weigh mountain peaks in a balance, found himself flat on the ground and then being carried in a litter, a visible demonstration to all of the power of God, (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
in that the very eyes of this godless man teemed with worms and his flesh rotted away while he lingered on in agonising pain, and the stench of his decay sickened the whole army. (2 Maccabees 9, 9)
His stench being unbearable even to himself, he exclaimed, 'It is right to submit to God; no mortal should aspire to equality with the Godhead.' (2 Maccabees 9, 12)
and, to crown all, he would himself turn Jew and visit every inhabited place, proclaiming the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
Finding no respite at all from his suffering, God's just sentence having overtaken him, he abandoned all hope for himself and wrote the Jews the letter transcribed below, which takes the form of an appeal in these terms: (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
Our task now is to unfold the history of Antiochus Eupator, son of that godless man, and briefly to relate the evil effects of the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
Maccabaeus and his men, after making public supplication to God, entreating him to support them, began operations against the Idumaean fortresses. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
