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Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate: and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war. (1 Maccabees 15, 3)
In the year one hundred and seventy-four Antiochus entered into the land of this fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon. (1 Maccabees 15, 10)
And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's: but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
But we having opportunity claim the inheritance of our fathers. (1 Maccabees 15, 34)
For when our fathers were led in Persia, the priests that then were worshippers of God took privately the fire from the altar, and hid it in a valley where there was a deep pit without water, and there they kept it safe, (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers and didst sanctify them : (2 Maccabees 1, 25)
And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best: (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers. (2 Maccabees 5, 10)
But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew. (2 Maccabees 6, 6)
But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. (2 Maccabees 7, 2)
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
