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And the people of Israel began to write in the tablets and the public records, in the first year under Simon: high priest, great commander, and leader of the Jews. (1 Maccabees 13, 42)
And Cendebeus passed through to Jamnia, and he began to provoke the populace, and to trample Judea, and to take the people captive, and to execute, and to build up Kedron. (1 Maccabees 15, 40)
But all the priests were reciting prayer, while the sacrifice was being consumed, with Jonathan beginning and the rest answering. (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
Therefore, here we will begin the narration. Let so much be sufficient to say in preface. For it is foolish to go on and on before the account, when the account itself is succinct. (2 Maccabees 2, 33)
When the king had assented, and he had obtained the leadership, he immediately began to transfer his subjects to the rituals of the heathens. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
Now this was not the beginning, but a certain increase and progression of heathenism and foreign practices, due to the nefarious and unheard of wickedness of the impious non-priest Jason, (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
But when the multitude stirred up an insurrection, and their minds were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand, who began to act with hands of iniquity. A certain tyrant was their leader, a man advanced both in age and in madness. (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
Therefore, about these things, a judgment began to be stirred up against Menelaus. (2 Maccabees 4, 43)
Because of this, everyone begged that these prodigies might be turned to good. (2 Maccabees 5, 4)
So then, I beg those who will read this Book, let them not be repelled by these adverse events, but let them consider that these things happened, not for the destruction, but for the correction, of our people. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
But he began to consider the eminent dignity of his stage of life and old age, and the natural honor of gray hair, as well as his exemplary words and deeds from childhood. And he responded quickly, according also to the ordinances of the sacred law preserved by God, saying, that he would first be sent to the underworld. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
But, having gathered together their weapons and spoils, they kept the Sabbath, blessing the Lord who had delivered them in that day, showering the beginning of mercy on them. (2 Maccabees 8, 27)
