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Then it was that Simon marched on Gaza,✻ and beleaguered it with his army; built engines, and forced an entry into one of the towers. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
how the people resolved to give them fair greeting, and to lay up a copy of their report in the public archives, that should preserve the memory of it among the Spartan people; and how an account of all this was sent to the high priest Simon. (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
So he marched away to Jamnia, and set about harassing the Jews; now it was an inroad, with prisoners carried away, now a massacre; and all the while he was fortifying Gedor. (1 Maccabees 15, 40)
I am an old man now, and it is yours to do what I and brother of mine did; march out, fight in our people’s cause, and heaven’s aid be with you! (1 Maccabees 16, 3)
What became of him, think you, the general that marched away into Persia with a countless army at his heels?✻ He met his end in the temple of Nanea, through guile of the priests that served it. (2 Maccabees 1, 13)
Years passed, and God’s will was that Nehemias should come back, holding the Persian king’s warrant. Nehemias it was that had search made for the fire, and by the grandsons of those very priests that hid it; but they made report, fire they could find none, only a puddle of water.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
When a house is first in building, the architect must needs bestow pains on every part of it; not such the painter’s care, he will pick out the surfaces that are most apt for adornment. And so, methinks, it is here; (2 Maccabees 2, 30)
to expatiate, to digress, to indulge curiosity on every point, is for the arch-historian; (2 Maccabees 2, 31)
Be sure this Heliodorus offered God sacrifice; ay, and made vows a many for his preservation, and thanked Onias besides; then he marched his army back to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
Mischief in the bud, think you, when such alien Gentile ways came in? Nay, here was flower and fruit of it; and all through the unexampled villainy of one man, this Jason, that high priest was none, but rather an arch-traitor. (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
Antiochus, then, came away from the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents the richer; and back he went to Antioch, all at reckless speed; he had a mind to sail his fleet over the plain, march his troops across the sea, his heart so swelled with pride in his doings. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
But he would do worse by the Jews yet; or why did he send out Apollonius, the arch-enemy, and a force of twenty-two thousand, to cut off manhood in its flower, women and children to sell for slaves? (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
