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And now the followers of Machabaeus, after prayer made for the divine assistance, delivered an attack upon the Edomite strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
So he put these traitors to death; and for the strongholds, he conquered both of them at a blow, (2 Maccabees 10, 22)
But Timotheus could not be content with one defeat at the hands of the Jews; he would bring in hordes of foreign soldiery, and cavalry from Asia, threatening Judaea with slavery. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
Hard went the day, and, so it seemed to the enemy, heaven itself took part. Five horsemen came riding, with splendid trappings of gold, to lead the Jews onward; (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
Stung by these taunts, twenty warriors of Machabaeus’ company made a bold attack on the wall as the fifth day was dawning, and, by the fierceness of their onslaught, made shift to climb it; (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
Of all this he bethought him, never of God’s avenging power; blindly he trusted in his foot-soldiers by the ten thousand, his horsemen by the thousand, in his elephants that numbered four score. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
So, in good heart, they set out together, and before they left Jerusalem a vision came to them; of a rider that went before them in white array, with armour of gold, brandishing his spear. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
But of one nation, the Jews, we hear that they resisted our father’s will, who would have had them conform to the Greek way of living; to their own tradition they hold fast, and their plea is, we should grant them the enjoyment of their rights in the matter. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
Yet strength is none can hold its own against the Omnipotent; to him the Jews made appeal, and so took the city, killing twenty-five thousand of the defenders. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
and himself called the elders to a council; his plan was, he told them, to march out and engage the king before he could reach Judaea and overpower the city, and the issue of it he would leave to the Lord’s good pleasure. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
the king had taste enough of Jewish valour, and set about to reduce the strongholds by policy. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
and now he had recourse to king Demetrius, in the hundred and fiftieth year. He came with gifts, a gold crown and a palm branch, and wreaths that had been better employed in the service of the temple.✻ No word said he on the first day of his arriving; (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
