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That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed, that was ready to be made even with the ground, and would hear the voice of the blood that cried to him: (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them. (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
Setting before their eyes the injury they had unjustly done the holy place, and also the injury they had done to the city, which had been shamefully abused, besides their destroying the ordinances of the fathers. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
And after the holy Book had been read to them by Esdras, and he had given them for a watchword, The help of God: himself leading the first band, he joined battle with Nicanor: (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
And when they kept the feast of the victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire to the holy gates, who had taken refuge in a certain house, rendering to him a worthy reward for his impieties: (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple, and to oppress the city: but the multitude running together to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus being put to flight returned with disgrace. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
And the city to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a, common buryingplace, he now desireth to make free. (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
The holy temple also which before he had spoiled, he promiseth to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
And so after prayer taking their arms, they went forth further from the city, and when they were come very near the enemies they rested. (2 Maccabees 10, 27)
Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles : (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace : when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
