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And they obtained the law from the hands of the Gentiles, and from the hands of the kings. And they did not surrender the horn to the sinner. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)
And he provoked many kings, and he gave joy to Jacob by his works, and his memory will be a blessing for all generations. (1 Maccabees 3, 7)
And he said, “I will make a name for myself, and I will be glorified in the kingdom, and I will defeat Judas in warfare, and those who are with him, who have spurned the word of the king.” (1 Maccabees 3, 14)
And his name reached even to the king, and all the nations told stories of the battles of Judas. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
But when king Antiochus heard these accounts, he was angry to his very soul. And he sent and gathered together forces from his entire kingdom, a very strong army. (1 Maccabees 3, 27)
And he feared, lest he not have enough the second time as the first, for expenses and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand. For his excesses were more than the kings who had been before him. (1 Maccabees 3, 30)
And so, the king took the remaining part of the army, and he went forth from Antioch, the city of his kingdom, in the one hundred and forty-seventh year. And he crossed over the river Euphrates, and he traveled through the upper regions. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Then Lysias chose Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor and Gorgias, powerful men from among the king’s friends. (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
And he sent them with forty thousand men, and seven thousand horsemen, to enter into the land of Judah, and to destroy it, according to the word of the king. (1 Maccabees 3, 39)
And Judas and his brothers saw that evils were being multiplied, and that armies had been positioned near their borders. And they knew the words of the king, which ordered the people to be put to death and to be utterly consumed. (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
And Judas heard of it, and he rose up, with his powerful men, to strike the force from the king’s army that was in Emmaus. (1 Maccabees 4, 3)
And when he heard these things, he was discouraged, being alarmed to his very soul. For things had not occurred in Israel according to his wishes, nor as the king had commanded. (1 Maccabees 4, 27)
