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Not yours, he told them, to run greedily after the spoils of the camp; there is battle still awaiting us over yonder. (1 Maccabees 4, 17)
So to the pillaging of the camp Judas returned; what gold and silver they found there, what garments of blue and sea-purple, what rich treasures! (1 Maccabees 4, 23)
What should he do? Here were his troops fled in disorder, here was Judas in command of brave men, that would as soon have an honourable death as life itself. Back he went to Antioch, and there levied soldiers for a greater expedition yet against Judaea. (1 Maccabees 4, 35)
Then they raised a new altar in place of the old, using stones that had never felt the pick, as the law bade;✻ (1 Maccabees 4, 47)
They decked the front wall of the temple, at this time, with gold crowns and escutcheons, consecrated the gates and the priest’s lodging anew, and furnished it with doors; (1 Maccabees 4, 57)
Great indignation had the Gentiles that lived round about, when they heard that altar and temple were standing as of old. (1 Maccabees 5, 1)
These he chased into their strongholds and besieged them there; laid them under a ban✻ and burned the strongholds to the ground, with their defenders in them. (1 Maccabees 5, 5)
But by this all the heathen folk in the country of Galaad were making common cause against the Israelites who dwelt there, eager to be rid of them. And these, taking refuge in the stronghold of Datheman, (1 Maccabees 5, 9)
There the Nabuthaeans came to meet them, and gave them friendly welcome, and told them of all that had befallen their brethren in the Galaad country; (1 Maccabees 5, 25)
besides many others cut off in the rest of the Galaadite towns. And to-morrow, he was told, the heathen mean to occupy these cities with their army, seizing upon the Israelites and making an end of them, all in one day’s work. (1 Maccabees 5, 27)
At night-fall they continued their journey, and reached the Israelite stronghold.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 29)
What a sight was this that met their eyes, when day broke! A great rabble of men past all counting, that brought up scaling-ladders and engines, as if they would take the stronghold by storm. (1 Maccabees 5, 30)
