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Now, therefore, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen. (1 Maccabees 5, 12)
and he swore with anger, saying, “Unless Judas and his army have been delivered into my hands, when I return in peace, I will burn this house.” And he went out with great anger. (1 Maccabees 7, 35)
We, though, have no need of these things, having for our solace the sacred books, which are in our hands. (1 Maccabees 12, 9)
And their enemies wanted to trample and lay waste to their country, and to extend their hands against their holy places. (1 Maccabees 14, 31)
And in his days, there was prosperity by his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away from their country, and also those who were in the city of David, in Jerusalem, in the stronghold, from which they went out and contaminated all the places that were around the sanctuary, and from which they brought a great scourging against chastity. (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and he said to them: “I and my brothers, and my father’s house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth, even to this day. And this work has prospered in our hands, so that we have delivered Israel several times. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
And when he had studied it, he gave the priests many goods and presents, of one kind or another, and using his own hands, he distributed these. (2 Maccabees 1, 35)
But every one of them, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, made supplication. (2 Maccabees 3, 20)
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)
And, taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities for the adornment and glory of the place, he unworthily handled and contaminated them. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
he ordered the tongue of him who had spoken first to be cut off, and, once the skin of his head had been pulled off, likewise his hands and feet to be cut off at the top, while the rest of his brothers and his mother were watching. (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
After this one, the third was ridiculed, and when he was asked, he quickly offered up his tongue, and he resolutely extended his hands. (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
