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• and gave them this order: "Remain at the head of the people, but do not attack the pagans until we return." (1 Maccabees 5, 19)

• A cavalry of five hundred picked horsemen went before each elephant and accompanied it with the order not to separate from it. (1 Maccabees 6, 36)

• One part of the king's army was deployed up in the mountains and the other on the plain. All advanced confidently and in good order. (1 Maccabees 6, 40)

• But in spite of all this, not one of them had himself crowned or dressed as a king in order to be exalted. (1 Maccabees 8, 14)

• They had created a senate and three hundred and twenty men deliberated on daily matters relating to the good of the people and the maintenance of order. (1 Maccabees 8, 15)

• So Jonathan gave the order to attack. The people in the city were so afraid that they opened the gates to him, and Jonathan occupied Joppa. (1 Maccabees 10, 76)

• Trypho persuaded him to hand the boy over to him in order to restore Antiochus to the throne of his father. He told him of all the decisions of Demetrius and the resentment of his soldiers towards him. And Trypho spent a long time there. (1 Maccabees 11, 40)

• we have decided to send ambassadors to you to renew our fraternal bonds and friendship in order not to become strangers to you, for it has been a long time since you wrote us. (1 Maccabees 12, 10)

• Trypho wanted to reign in Asia, and to do away with King Antiochus in order to be king himself. (1 Maccabees 12, 39)

• God forbid that I should seek my own safety when things go wrong! For my life is not of more worth than the lives of my brothers. Now that all the nations have united in their hatred in order to destroy us, (1 Maccabees 13, 5)

• In the year one hundred and seventytwo, King Demetrius assembled his army and marched into Media to look for help in order to fight Trypho. (1 Maccabees 14, 1)

• The enemies of the Jews then planned to invade their land in order to destroy their Holy Place. (1 Maccabees 14, 31)