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to have mercy on the city now being destroyed and levelled to the ground, to hear the blood of the victims that cried aloud to him, (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
They then joined in public supplication, imploring the merciful Lord to be fully reconciled with his servants. (2 Maccabees 8, 29)
The triple-dyed scoundrel Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
And so this murderer and blasphemer, having endured sufferings as terrible as those which he had made others endure, met his pitiable fate, and ended his life in the mountains far from his home. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
Gorgias now became general of the area; he maintained a force of mercenaries and a continual state of war with the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
Timotheus, who had been beaten by the Jews once before, now assembled an enormous force of mercenaries, mustering cavalry from Asia in considerable numbers, and soon appeared in Judaea, expecting to conquer it by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
Others, in a similar scaling operation, took the defenders in the rear, and set fire to the towers, lighting pyres on which they burned the blasphemers alive. The first, meanwhile, breaking open the gates, let the rest of the army in and, at their head, captured the town. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
With one accord they all blessed the God of mercy, and found themselves filled with such courage that they were ready to lay low not men only but the fiercest beasts and walls of iron. (2 Maccabees 11, 9)
They advanced in battle order with the aid of their celestial ally, the Lord having had mercy on them. (2 Maccabees 11, 10)
The Jews may make use of their own kind of food and their own laws as formerly, and none of them is to be molested in any way for any unwitting offences. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
When they had all, with one voice, obeyed his instructions and had made their petitions to the merciful Lord, weeping, fasting and prostrating themselves for three days continuously, Judas spoke words of encouragement and told them to keep close to him. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
A certain Alcimus, a former high priest, had wilfully incurred defilement at the time of the insurrection; realising that whichever way he turned there was no security for him, nor any further access to the holy altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
