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and you may be sure Judas had armed men posted in waiting, to forestall any sudden treachery on the enemy’s part; but their parleys ended happily enough. (2 Maccabees 14, 22)
Towards Judas he shewed unaffected friendship, such a liking he had taken for the man; (2 Maccabees 14, 24)
ay, and encouraged him to take a wife and beget children; so Judas married, and took his ease, and ever he lived on close terms with Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 25)
And what of Alcimus? Little it liked him to see all this good-will between the two of them, and their treaty-making; to Demetrius he betook him, and charged Nicanor with disaffection; was he not purposing to hand over his command to Judas, a traitor against the realm? (2 Maccabees 14, 26)
Here was Nicanor left in great confusion of mind; it went against the grain with him to cancel the treaty with Judas, that had nothing wronged him, (2 Maccabees 14, 28)
So Nicanor found himself quite outwitted; and he must needs make his way into the high and holy precincts of the temple, where even then the priests were offering their accustomed sacrifice. Judas, he said, must be handed over to him; (2 Maccabees 14, 31)
and swore that if Judas were not handed over to him in chains he would raze yonder sanctuary to the ground, demolish the altar, and consecrate its precincts anew to Bacchus. (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
When Nicanor was told, Judas was in the Samaritan country, he would have pressed home the attack against him, there and then, on the sabbath day. (2 Maccabees 15, 1)
And with that, Jeremias reached forward to Judas, and gave him a golden sword; (2 Maccabees 15, 15)
Judas, when he saw the number of his assailants, how manifold were their appointments, how fierce the temper of the beasts, was fain to lift hands heavenward, and to the Lord make his appeal; the Lord, that is wondrous in his doings, and at his own pleasure crowns right, not might, with victory. (2 Maccabees 15, 21)
But Judas and his company went to meet them calling still upon God for his succour; (2 Maccabees 15, 26)
And Judas? Not for nothing had he devoted body and soul, this long while, to the service of his fellow countrymen! Nicanor’s head, and one of his arms cut off from the shoulder downwards, he bade them carry to Jerusalem; (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
