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Judas sent them a message of peace saying: "Allow us to go through your land as we go back to ours; we will simply walk through and none of us will do you any harm." But they refused to open the gates to him. (1 Maccabees 5, 48)
Throughout the journey Judas kept on encouraging his people and rallying those who fell behind, until they reached the land of Judah. (1 Maccabees 5, 53)
While Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and their brother Simon was encamped in Galilee opposite Ptolemais, (1 Maccabees 5, 55)
Then he left for the land of the Philistines, passing through Marisa. (1 Maccabees 5, 66)
From there Judas turned towards Azotus in the land of the Philistines. He destroyed their altars, burned the statues of their gods, plundered the city and then returned to Judah. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
I now know that because of this, these misfortunes have come upon me, and I am dying of grief in a strange land." (1 Maccabees 6, 13)
He made peace with the people of Beth-zur who evacuated the city since they had no food to continue the resistance, for that year was a year of rest for the land. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
And they began accusing their own people before the king, "Judas and his brothers have murdered all your friends and have driven us away from our land. (1 Maccabees 7, 6)
and all who disturbed the peace of the people joined him. They became masters of the land of Judea and did great harm to the Israelites. (1 Maccabees 7, 22)
The land of Judah enjoyed peace for a short time. (1 Maccabees 7, 50)
and how they had conquered that land by dint of intelligence and perseverance, despite its great distance from their own land. He also learned how they had defeated the kings who came from the ends of the earth to attack them, how they managed to conquer and crush them. There were others who paid them an annual tax. (1 Maccabees 8, 4)
"May all go well with the Romans and the Jewish people at sea and on land forever, may both sword and enemy be far from them! (1 Maccabees 8, 23)
